We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

She explained that the bullet had entered through the side of my left eye where there was a scar, traveled eighteen inches down to my left shoulder and stopped there. It could have taken out my eye or gone into my brain. It was a miracle I was alive.

I don't mind if I have to sit on the floor at school. All I want is education. And I'm afraid of no one.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

We have to change this idea that women are only supposed to work in the house... Women should go out and be what they want

This is the philosophy of nonviolence that I have learned from Gandhi, Bacha Khan and Mother Teresa.

We felt like the Taliban saw us as little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He wouldn't have made us all different.