My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

I want world leaders to choose books over bullets...We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.

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

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

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.

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

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.