My father used to say the people of Swat and the teachers would continue to educate our children until the last room, the last teacher and the last student was alive. My parents never once suggested I should withdraw from school, ever. Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us.

If we want to end terrorism we need to bring quality education so we defeat the mindset of terrorism mentality and of hatred.

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

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

When someone takes away your pens you realise quite how important education is.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.