"My mother always told me,"hide your face-people are looking at you".I would reply,"it does not matter;I am also looking at them"

"If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?"

"Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children."

"Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide."

"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."

"He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."

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

"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."

"Read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism."

"One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

"With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism."

"We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage."

"When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is."

"Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world."

"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."

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

"One year ago I left my home for school and never returned."

"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women."

"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."

"I raise up my voice-not so that I can shout, but so those without a voice can be heard."

"If people were silent nothing would change."

"It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do."

"Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born."

"Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!"

"Now, every morning when I open my eyes, I long to see my old room full of my things, my clothes all over the floor and my school prizes on the shelves."

"At night our fear is strong . . . but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again."

"They told us if they kill all the lions the wildlife will disappear, so now those who become warriors are those with higher education, not those who kill lions."

"I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley."

"If people volunteered in the same way to construct schools or roads or even clear the river of plastic wrappers, by God, Pakistan would become a paradise within a year."

"I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls."

"Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

"The boys learn the Quran by heart, rocking back and forth as they recite. They learn that there is no such thing as science or literature, that dinosaurs never existed and man never went to the moon."

"Tell me how can one live without daughters."

"We felt like the Taliban saw us as like little dolls to control, telling us what to do and how to dress. I thought if God wanted us to be like that He would not have made us all different."

"That's when he lifted up a black pistol. I later learned it was a Colt .45. Some of the girls screamed. Moniba tells me I squeezed her hand."

"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."

"I love physics because it is about truth, a world determined by principles and laws—no messing around or twisting things like in politics, particularly those in my country."

"The only solution is education, education, education."

"Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected."

"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither eastern or western, it is human"

"I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away"

"Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world."

"Some people say I will never return home"

"When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies."

"Is not at all uncommon for women in my country to be illiterate, but to see my mother, a proud and intelligent woman, struggle to read the prices in the bazaar was an unspoken sadness for both of us, I think."

"I will protect your freedom, Malala. Carry on with your dreams."

"Rather I receive your bullet riddled body with honor that us of your cowardliness on the battlefield."

"I told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

"Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’ and then forgotten."