Quotes by Malala Yousafzai

About Malala Yousafzai:

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.

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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.

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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.

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Outside of my home, I look like a very obedient, very serious, very good kind of girl, but nobody knows what happens inside the house.

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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.

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I say I am stronger than fear.

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I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.

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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.

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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.

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If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.

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I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.

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I want to make this world perfect.

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Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

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I think life is always dangerous. Some people get afraid of it. Some people don't go forward. But some people, if they want to achieve their goal, they have to go. They have to move... We have seen the barbaric situation of the 21st century in Swat. ...

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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.

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

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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

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We must tell girls their voices are important.

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I believe the gun has no power at all.

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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

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Author Bio

  • NameMalala Yousafzai
  • DescriptionPakistani children's education activist
  • AliasesGul Makai
  • BornJuly 12, 1997
  • CountryPakistan
  • ProfessionBlogger; Human Rights Activist; Memoirist
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Sakharov Prize; Simone De Beauvoir Prize; Honorary Canadian Citizenship; National Malala Peace Prize; Anna Politkovskaya Award; United Nations Prize In The Field Of Human Rights; European Human Rights Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom From Fear; Philadelphia Liberty Medal; International Children's Peace Prize