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.

We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced

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

There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.

I don't want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.