If people were silent, nothing would change.

I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it. That's why I have problems with our Pashtunwali code. We are supposed to take revenge for wrongs done to us, but where does that end? If a man in one family is killed or hurt by another man, revenge must be exacted to restore nang (honor).

When we imagine the power of all our sisters standing together on the shoulders of a quality education - our joy knows no bounds.

I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.

I had 2 choices, be silent and get killed, or speak up and be killed, I chose the second option.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

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.