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.
I don't know what would I do in future; I'll decide it later.
I want to make this world perfect.
Islam means peace.
I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.
I am a daughter. My father is an example for me.
Some girls cannot go to school because of the child labor and child trafficking.
I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change.
I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
We must tell girls their voices are important.
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?
In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.
When I was young I used to listen to other people and to try and understand what they thought and where they were coming from. I listened and didn't speak.
I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated.
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 realized that becoming a doctor, I can only help a small community. But by becoming a politician, I can help my whole country.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities.
In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.
I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy.
It's an honor to be awarded the Liberty Medal.
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.
On the day when I was shot, and on the next day, people raised the banners of 'I am Malala'. They did not say 'I am Taliban.'
Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.