My story is the story of thousands of children from around the world. I hope it inspires others to stand up for their rights.
I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
There are many problems, but I think there is a solution to all these problems; it's just one, and it's education.
I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.
Especially in the world of fantasy and superheroes, it's great to have role models that aren't in skimpy little outfits, in impossible poses. That's so important for young women.
The relationship of the two problems is rather the reverse. To a great extent disarmament is dependent on guarantees of peace. Security comes first and disarmament second.
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.
What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.
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.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.
Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.
I never conceived of not writing a novel. I believed - oh, God, I believed, it was an article of faith! - I was born to write a novel.
I never had faith that the answers to human problems lay in anything that could be called political. I thought the answers, if there were answers, lay someplace in man's soul.
