They only can shoot a body but they cannot shoot my dreams.

I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world.

I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.

Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard?

There was a time when women activists asked men to stand up for their rights. But this time we will do it by ourselves. I am not telling men to step away from speaking for women’s rights, but I am focusing on women to be independent and fight for themselves.

We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.