I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

by Malala Yousafzai

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.

‘Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.’

‘Teach him it is far more honourable to fail than to cheat.’