Malala Yousafzai Quotes
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.
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Birmingham is very special for me because it is here that I found myself alive, seven days after I was shot... It is now my second home, after my beloved Pakistan.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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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.'
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
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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, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.
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I want to make this world perfect.
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Pakistan is a peace-loving, democratic country.
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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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.
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Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
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At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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I say I am stronger than fear.