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

My father was convinced the Taliban would hunt him down and kill him, but he again refused security from the police. 'If you go around with a lot of security the Taliban will use Kalashnikovs or suicide bombers and more people will be killed,' he said. 'At least I'll be killed alone.'

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

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

The best way to fight terrorism is to do it through a peaceful way. I believe that a war can never be ended by a war.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.