"There's nothing special about me. The only thing that's different in my story is that my father did not stop me."

"We must empower women and girls to become agents of change."

"I went to school and I was just a normal girl wanting to get an education."

"Now we have social media, and it should be used for this good purpose… speaking up for equality, for justice, for equal rights."

"In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don't want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that."