Islam tells us every girl and boy should be educated. I don't know why the Taliban have forgotten it.

I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, ‘If he comes, what would you do Malala?’ then I would reply to myself, ‘Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.’

But then I said, ‘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.’

Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that ‘I even want education for your children as well.’ And I will tell him, ‘That’s what I want to tell you, now do what you want.

The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.

I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.

Islam means peace.

I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.