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.

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.

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.

I want to just stay focused on my mission. That is to see every girl get the right to education. And I think this is such an important thing that girls get their right to go to school, and we are losing the potential that these young girls have in this region, like Iraq.

I want every girl, every child, to be educated.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.