"'You're already a good partner, Asser. Things are great between us, but I still don't know how I feel about being a wife.' 'So…you're saying that I just need to find a way to reverse about five thousa…"

"The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they could not stop our minds from thinking."

"I am just a normal girl, but I have a big dream."

"I am not a lone voice, I am many."

"I think of it often and imagine the scene clearly. Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."