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"My mother comes from a family of strong women as well as influential men. Her grandmother – my great-grandmother – was widowed when her children were young, and her eldest son Janser Khan was locked up because of a tribal feud with another family when he was only nine. To get him released she walked forty miles alone over mountains to appeal to a powerful cousin. I think my mother would do the same for us. " Chapter 1.

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"In their bubble inside the hospital, they did not realize that my story had traveled all around the world and that people were calling for me to be sent abroad for treatment." pg. 259, Chapter 21.

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"I always knew my mother was a strong woman but I looked at her with new respect." page 181, Chapter 15.

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"Fear is very powerful and in the end it was this fear that had made people turn against Shabana" Page 153, Chapter 12.

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"I am inspired by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, the man who some call the Frontier Gandhi, who introduced a non-violent philosophy to our culture." Pg. 74, Chapter 5.

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“From an early age I was interested in politics and sat on my father’s knee listening to everything he and his friends discussed.” Page 88, Chapter 6.

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"She was pro-West; she was speaking against the Taliban; she was calling President Obama her idol." Page 256, Chapter 21.

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"My father was bewildered by all the people gathered outside- politicians, government dignitaries, provincial ministers-who had come to show their sympathy." Page. 253, Chapter 21.

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"Every channel was showing footage of me with a commentary of prayers and moving poems, as if I had died." Page 253, Chapter 21.

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"The Americans were worried that their ally General Musharraf was too unpopular in Pakistan to be effective against the Taliban so they had helped broker an unlikely power-sharing deal. " Chapter 10.

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"Benazir was our first female prime minister and the first in the Islamic world. Suddenly there was a lot of optimism about the future." Chapter 3.

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"He found himself torn between the two extremes, secularism and socialism on one side and militant Islam on the other. I guess he ended up somewhere in the middle." Chapter 2.

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"My father remembers that one day a maulana called Sufi Mohammad came to the village and asked young men to join him to fight the Russians in the name of Islam. Many did, and they set off, armed with old rifles or just axes and bazookas. Little did we know that years later the same maulana’s organization would become the Swat Taliban. At that time my father was only twelve years old and too young to fight. But the Russians ended up stuck in Afghanistan for ten years, through most of the 1980s, and when he became a teenager my father decided he too wanted to be a jihadi." Chapter 2.

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"God wants us to have the knowledge, he wants us to know why the sky is blue and about ocean and star." Page 311, Epilogue.

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"The Taliban is not an organized force like we imagined, it's a mentality, and this mentality is everywhere in Pakistan. Someone who is against America [...] he has been infected by the Taliban." Chapter 19.

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"When you are in the Taliban you have 100% life security" Page 149, chapter 12.

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"We Muslims are split between Sunnis and Shias- we share the same Holy Quran, but we disagree over who was the right person to lead our religion the Prophet, PBUH, died in the seventh century." Page 92, Chapter 7.

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"and think Islam means women sitting at home in purdah or wearing burqas while men do jihad." Page 91, Chapter 7.

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"Life was even worse for women in Afghanistan, where a group called the Taliban had taken over the country. Schools for girls had been burned to the ground, and all women were forced to wear a severe form of burqa, a head-to-toe veil that had only a tiny fabric grille for their eyes. Women were banned from laughing out loud or wearing nail polish, and they were beaten or jailed for walking without a male family member." Pg. 58, Chapter 4.

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"For as long as I can remember my mother has talked to birds. At the back of the house was a veranda where the women gathered. We knew what it was like to be hungry so my mother always cooked extra and gave food to poor families. If there was any left she fed it to the birds." Page 18, Chapter 1.

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"You are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed- that has nothing to do with the business of the state." Page 92, Chapter 7.

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"We are loving peace-loving. Our mountains , our trees, our flowers- everything in our valley is about peace." Page 141, Chapter 11.

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"So Madam and Maryam and I wrote an email to General Abbas explaining the situation. He was very kind and sent us 1,100,000 rupees so my father could pay everyone three months' back pay." Page 197, Chapter 16.

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"My father sent food and aid to Shangla using money collected by friends and the Swat Association of Private Schools." Page 202, Chapter 16.

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"My father told the story of Malalai to anyone who came to our house. I loved hearing the story and the songs my father sang to me, and the way my name floated on the wind when people called it."  Page 15, Chapter 1.

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"Among the visitors who came and were not allowed in was Rehman Malik, the interior minister. He had brought with him a passport for me." Page 259, Chapter 21.

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"My father didn’t care. He says he looked into my eyes after I was born and fell in love. He told people, ‘I know there is something different about this child.’ He even asked friends to throw dried fruits, sweets and coins into my cradle, something we usually only do for boys." Page 14, Chapter 1.

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"But my father told me not to worry. “I will protect your freedom, Malala,” he said. “Carry on with
your dreams.” Pg. 59, Chapter 4.

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"It was a perfect night with stars and a full moon just above the trees, which he took to be a sign. 'I felt so happy' he recalls. My dreams were coming true." Page.47, Chapter 3.

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"He had studied in a British school in Peshawar, and perhaps because his own father was illiterate he was passionate about schools and built many, as well as hospitals and roads." Page 25 ,Chapter 1.

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"Like my father I’ve always been a daydreamer, and sometimes in lessons my mind would drift and I’d imagine that on the way home a terrorist might jump out and shoot me on those steps. I wondered what I would do. Maybe I’d take off my shoes and hit him, but then I’d think if I did that there would be no difference between me and a terrorist. It would be better to plead, ‘OK, shoot me, but first listen to me. What you are doing is wrong. I’m not against you personally, I just want every girl to go to school.’" Page 7, Prologue.

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“Though my mother was not educated, she was the practical one in the family, the doer while my father was the talker.” Page 81, Chapter 6.

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"It was school that kept me going in those dark days ." Page 135, Chapter 11.

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"They can stop us from going to school, but they can't stop us from learning." Page 161, Chapter 13.

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"They cannot stop me. I will get my education if it's at home, school, or somewhere else..." Page 161, Chapter 13.

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"We knew we were lucky. Many children had to have their classes in tents because the Taliban had destroyed their schools." Page 193, Chapter 16.

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"They are the most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world." Page 310, Epilogue.

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"Education had been a great gift for him (Ziauddin). He believed that lack of education was the root of all Pakistans problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be reelected. He believed schooling should be available for all, rich and poor, boys and girls." Page 41, Chapter 3.

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"It was as though they wanted to remove all traces of womankind from public life." Page 97, Chapter 7

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"A woman couldn’t even open a bank account without a man’s permission. As a nation we have always been good at hockey, but Zia made our female hockey players wear baggy trousers instead of shorts, and stopped women playing some sports altogether." Page 31, Chapter 2

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“Women are meant to fulfill their responsibilities in the home. Only in emergencies can they go outside, but then they must wear the veil” Page 115, chapter 9

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"It was because of Benazir that girls like me could think of speaking out and becoming politicians. She was our role model. She symbolized the end of dictatorship and the beginning of democracy as well as sending a message of hope and strength to the rest of the world". Page 65, Chapter 10.

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"In Pakistan when women say they want independence, people think this means we don’t want to obey our fathers, brothers or husbands. But it does not mean that. It means we want to make decisions for ourselves. We want to be free to go to school or to go to work. Nowhere is it written in the Quran that a woman should be dependent on a man. The word has not come down from the heavens to tell us that every woman should listen to a man." Chapter 18, page 219.

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"Some of them were in desperate situations as they had no way to support themselves. A woman can only remarry if her husband is declared dead, not missing." Page 206, Chapter 17.

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"It was always our mother who shopped for our clothes and took us to hospital if we were ill, even though in our culture, particularly for those of us from villages, a woman is not supposed to do these things alone." Page 85, Chapter 6.

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"Her own family would not take her back because it is believed that a woman who has left her husband has brought shame on her family." Page 82, Chapter 6

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"There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women." Page 31, chapter 2.

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"But General Zia brought in Islamic laws which reduced a woman’s evidence in court to count for only half that of a man’s" Page 31, chapter 2.

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"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." Page 13, chapter 1.

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"For us girls that doorway was like a magical entrance to our own special world." Page 4, prologue