"I used to think that the Taliban would come and they would just kill me. But then I said, 'If they come, what will you do, Malala?' Then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit them…"

"The more you learn, the more you realize how much you don't know."

"Challenge the social norms created and enforced by men, and you disgrace your family and community. That morning, it meant that the patriarchy had grown so fragile that it could be threatened by a pai…"

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

"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?"