I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.

I did not clip the wings of my daughter to fly.

Trust your daughters, they are faithful. Honor your daughters, they are honorable. Educate your daughters, they are amazing.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.

People ask me, what special is in my mentorship which has made Malala so bold and so courageous and so vocal and poised? I tell them, don't ask me what I did. Ask me what I did not do. I did not clip her wings, and that's all.

Education is not simply to learn to read and write. It's emancipation. It makes you free.

When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.