Malala Yousafzai Quotes

In Swat, there are two jobs a woman’s going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.

I’m not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It’s your world and you can change it.

At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

I’m not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I’m wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

And also I didn’t want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn’t want to see my life in that way.

One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.

We need to increase education budgets.

It is true that when there’s a drone attack, those – that the – the terrorists are killed, it’s true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more – more bomb blasts occurs.

In some parts of the world, students are going to school every day. It’s their normal life. But in other part of the world, we are starving for education… it’s like a precious gift. It’s like a diamond.

Many girls do not go to school because of poverty.

Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.