I don't want awards, I want my daughter. I wouldn't exchange a single eyelash of my daughter for the whole world.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

We are starving for education... it's like a precious gift. It's like a diamond.

Then they told me about the call from home and that they were taking the threats seriously. I don't know why, but hearing I was being targeted did not worry me. It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.

I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right.

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.

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.