If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself...

Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of ‘I am Malala’. They did not say ‘I am Taliban.’

What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media… So we must try to use social media in a good way.

If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

Dear sisters and brothers, I am not against anyone.

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I’m not afraid of the Taliban.

Pakistanis can’t trust. They’ve seen in history that people, particularly politicians, are corrupt. And they’re misguided by people in the name of Islam. They’re told: ‘Malala is not a Muslim, she’s not in purdah, she’s...

I’m often in the company of adults, so it’s nice to meet girls my age or younger.

We human beings don’t realize how great God is. He has given us an extraordinary brain and a sensitive loving heart. He has blessed us with two lips to talk and express our feelings, two...

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.

I want to make this world perfect.

Some parents do not send their children to school because they don’t know its importance at all.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

Terrorism will spill over if you don’t speak up.

There’s no place like home. And I do miss my home.

Even we schoolchildren know that ordinary diplomats don’t drive around in unmarked cars carrying Glock pistols.

I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

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

Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.

As pessoas geralmente não deixam a própria casa voluntariamente. Só a pobreza ou o amor fazem com que fujam assim às pressas.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s...

Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls’ rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.

I don’t have a phone, but I do have an iPad.

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn’t kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

I want to have fun, but I don’t quite know how.

I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid, you can’t move forward.

I don’t know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it’s the right of every human being.

Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That’s why they are so powerful.

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman’s going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

We Pashtuns love shoes but don’t love the cobbler; we love our scarves and blankets but do not respect the weaver. Manual workers made a great contribution to our society but received no recognition, and...

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.

In countries other than Pakistan – I won’t necessarily call them ‘Western’ – people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don’t do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi,...

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” Malala Yousafzai, the schoolgirl who was shot in the head by the Taliban for wanting an education and survived, in...

In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself… By giving me this...

I want people to remember that Pakistan is my country. It is like my mother, and I love it dearly. Even if its people hate me, I will still love it.

I want to serve the people.

His sisters — my aunts — did not go to school at all, just like millions of girls in my country. Education had been a great gift for him. He believed that lack of education...

I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.