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

"Ignorance and illiteracy are the biggest threats to peace."

"If we lived together without getting married, my parents would stop speaking to me, at least for a while. People would inevitably find out about us, and all my work in Pakistan would go up in flames. …"

"The extremists are afraid of books and pens. The power of education frightens them. They are afraid of women."

"I believe it's a woman's right to decide what she wants to wear and if a woman can go to the beach and wear nothing, then why can't she also wear everything?"