"Don't ask me what I want to be when I grow up. Ask me what I want to change."

"We live in a world that talks about innovations, about gender equality. We cannot see a country going back decades and centuries."

"Islam says that you cannot stay ignorant, that you have to go and seek knowledge — no matter how hard it is, or how far you have to travel."

"In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. In other parts, there are bombs and children begging for textbooks."

"We must tell girls their voices are important. Sometimes children think it is not their job… girls are asking for their future."