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Malala Yousafzai Nobel Peace Prize Speech Transcript

In 2014 Malala Yousafzai gave her Nobel Peace Prize lecture. Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. Read her full speech transcript here.

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Malala Yousafzai: ( 00:05 ) Bismillah hir rahman ir rahim. In the name of God, the most merciful, the most beneficent. Your majesties, your royal highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, dear sisters and brothers today is a day of great happiness for me. I’m humbled that the Nobel Committee has selected me for this precious award. Thank you to everyone for your continued support and love. Thank you for the letters and cards that I still receive from all around the world. Your kind and encouraging words strengthens and inspires me. I’d like to thank my parents for their unconditional love. Thank you to my father for not clipping my wings and for letting me fly.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 01:30 ) Thank you to my mother for inspiring me to be patient and to always speak the truth, which we strongly believe is the true message of Islam. And also, thank you to all my wonderful teachers who inspired me to believe in myself and be brave. I’m proud. Well, in fact, I’m very proud to be the first Pashtun, the first Pakistani, and the youngest person to receive this award.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 02:34 ) Along with that, along with that I’m pretty certain that I’m also the first recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize who still fights with her younger brothers. I want there to be peace everywhere, but my brothers and I are still working on that. I’m also honored to receive this award together with Kailash Satyarthi, who has been a champion for children’s rights for a long time, twice as long, in fact, than I have been alive. I’m proud that we can walk together. We can walk together and show the world that an Indian and a Pakistani, they can work together and achieve their goals of children’s rights.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 03:49 ) Dear brothers and sisters, I was named after the inspirational Malalai of Maiwand, who is the Pashtun Joan of arc. The word Malala means grief-stricken, sad, but in order to lend some happiness to it, my grandfather would always call me Malala, the happiest girl in the world and today, I’m very happy that we are together fighting for an important cause. This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change. I’m here to stand up for their rights, to raise their voice. It is not time to pity them. It is not time to pity them. It is time to take action, so it becomes the last time, the last time, so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 05:28 ) I have found that people describe me in many different ways. Some people call me the girl who was shot by the Taliban, and some the girl who fought for her rights. Some people call me a Nobel Laureate now. However, my brothers still call me that annoying bossy sister. As far as I know, I’m just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education, who wants to see women having equal rights, and who wants peace in every corner of the world.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 06:51 ) Education is one of the blessings of life and one of its necessities. That has been my experience during the 17 years of my life. In my paradise home, Swat, I always loved learning and discovering new things. I remember when my friends and I would decorate our hands with henna on special occasions and instead of drawing flowers and patterns, we would paint our hands with mathematical formulas and equations. We had a thirst for education. We had a thirst for education because our future was right there in that classroom. We would sit, and learn, and read together. We loved to wear neat and tidy school uniforms and we would sit there with big dreams in our eyes. We wanted to make our parents proud and prove that we could also excel in our studies and achieve those goals, which some people think only boys can.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 08:20 ) But things did not remain the same. When I was in Swat, which was a place of tourism and beauty suddenly changed into a place of terrorism, I was just 10 that more than 400 schools were destroyed. Women were flogged. People were killed. And our beautiful dreams turned into nightmares. Education went from being a right to being a crime. Girls were stopped from going to school. When my world suddenly changed, my priorities changed too. I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 10:02 ) We could not just stand by and see those injustices of the terrorists denying our rights, ruthlessly killing people, and misusing the name of Islam. We decided to raise our voice and tell them, “Have you not learnt, have you not learnt that in the Holy Quran Allah says if you kill one person it is as if you kill the whole humanity? Do you not know that Mohammad, peace be upon him, the prophet of mercy, he says, do not harm yourself or others. And do you not know that the very first word of the Holy Quran is the word Iqra, which means read?” The terrorists tried to stop us and attacked me and my friends who are here today on our school bus in 2012, but neither their ideas, nor their bullets could win. We survived. And since that day, our voices have grown louder and louder.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 11:25 ) I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls. Today, I tell their stories too. I have brought with me some of my sisters from Pakistan, from Nigeria, and from Syria who share this story. My brave sisters, Shazia and Kainat, who were also shot the day on our school bus, but they have not stopped learning. And my brave sister, Kainat Soomro, who went through severe abuse and extreme violence, even her brother was killed, but she did not succumb. Also my sisters here, whom I have met during my Malala Fund Campaign. My 16 year old courageous sister, Mezon from Syria, who now lives in Jordan as a refugee and she goes from tent to tent encouraging girls and boys to learn. And my sister, Amina from the north of Nigeria, where Boko Haram threatens, and stops girls, and even kidnaps girls just for wanting to go to school.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 13:27 ) Though I appear as one girl, though I appear as one girl, one person, who is five foot, two inches tall if you include my high heels. It means I’m five foot only. I am not a lone voice. I’m not a lone voice. I am many. I am Malala. But I’m also Shazia. I’m Kainat. I’m Kainat Soomro. I am Mezon. I am Amina. I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today, I’m not raising my voice. It is the voice of those 66 million girls.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 14:59 ) Sometimes people like to ask me, “Why should girls go to school? Why is it important for them?” But I think the more important question is why shouldn’t they? Why shouldn’t they have this right to go to school? Dear brothers and sisters, today, in half of the world, we see rapid progress and development. However, there are many countries where millions still suffer from the very old problems of war, poverty, and injustice. We still see conflicts in which innocent people lose their lives and children become orphans. We see many people becoming refugees in Syria, Gaza, and Iraq. In Afghanistan, we see families being killed in suicide attacks and bomb blasts. Many children in Africa do not have access to education because of poverty. And as I said, we still see, we still see girls who have no freedom to go to school in the north of Nigeria.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 16:39 ) Many children in countries like Pakistan and India, as Kailash Satyarthi mentioned, many children, especially in India and Pakistan are deprived of their right to education because of social taboos or they have been forced into child marriage or into child labor. One of my very good school friends, the same age as me, who has always been a bold and confident girl, dreamed of becoming a doctor, but her dream remained a dream. At the age of 12, she was forced to get married. And then soon she had a son. She had a child when she herself was a child, only 14. I know that she could have been a very good doctor, but she couldn’t because she was a girl. Her story is why I dedicate the Nobel Peace Prize money to the Malala Fund, to help give girls quality education everywhere, anywhere in the world, and to raise their voices. The first place this funding will go to is where my heart is, to build schools in Pakistan, especially in my home of Swat and Shangla.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 18:27 ) In my own village, there is still no secondary school for girls. And it is my wish, and my commitment, and now my challenge to build one so that my friends and my sisters can go there to school and get quality education and they get this opportunity to fulfill their dreams. This is where I will begin, but it is not where I will stop. I will continue this fight until I see every child, every child in school. Dear brothers and sisters, great people who brought change like Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Aung San Suu Kyi, once stood here on this stage. I hope the steps that Kailash Satyarthi and I have taken so far and will take on this journey will also bring change, lasting change.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 20:21 ) My great hope is that this will be the last time, this will be the last time we must fight for education. Let’s solve this once and for all. We have already taken many steps. Now, it is time to take a leap. It is not time to tell the world leaders to realize how important education is, they already know it. Their own children are in good schools. Now, it is time to call them to take action for the rest of the world’s children. We ask the world leaders to unite and make education their top priority. 15 years ago, the world leaders decided on a set of global goals, the Millennium Development Goals. In the years that have followed, we have seen some progress. The number of children out of school has been halved, as Kailash Satyarthi said. However, the world focused only on primary education and progress did not reach everyone.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 21:49 ) In year 2015, representatives from all around the world will meet in the United Nations to set the next set of goals, the Sustainable Development Goals. This will set the world’s ambition for the next generations. The world can no longer accept that basic education is enough. Why do leaders accept that for children in developing countries only basic literacy is sufficient, when their own children do homework in algebra, mathematics, science, and physics? Leaders must seize this opportunity to guarantee a free, quality primary and secondary education for every child.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 23:01 ) Some would say this is impractical, or too expensive, or too hard, or maybe even impossible, but it is time the world thinks bigger. Dear sisters and brothers, the so-called world of adults may understand it, but we children don’t. Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars, but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it?

Malala Yousafzai: ( 23:59 ) Why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? Why is it? Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard? We are living in the modern age and we believe that nothing is impossible. We have reached the moon 45 years ago and maybe we’ll soon land on Mars. Then, in this 21st century, we must be able to give every child quality education.

Malala Yousafzai: ( 25:05 ) Dear sisters and brothers, dear fellow children, we must work, not wait. Not just the politicians and the world leaders, we all need to contribute. Me, you, we, it is our duty. Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last. Let us become the first generation that decides to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods, and wasted potentials. Let this be the last time that a girl or a boy spends their childhood in a factory. Let this be the last time that a girl is forced into early child marriage. Let this be the last time that a child loses life in war. Let this be the last time that we see a child out of school. Let this end with us. Let’s begin this ending together, today, right here, right now. Let’s begin this ending now. Thank you so much.

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New York, New York

Seven years ago I stood on this platform hoping that the voice of a teenage girl who took a bullet for standing up for her education would be heard.

On that day, leaders, corporations, civil society — all of us — committed to work together to see every child in school by 2030.

Yet halfway to that target date, we are facing an education emergency.

Let’s remind you once again what’s happening.

In Afghanistan, Taliban have banned girls like Somaya from learning. In Uganda and Pakistan, droughts and floods are ravaging homes like the ones where Vanessa and I grew up. And conflict and violence in Ethiopia, Ukraine and other countries are keeping girls like Yelizaveta out of the classroom.

If you are serious about creating a safe and sustainable world for children, then be serious about education. You’ve heard enough about how education transforms lives, strengthens economies and contributes to a more peaceful world.

You know every country, community and corporation would benefit from every girl having access to free, safe, quality education.

And if you’re still in doubt about the impact of education, go ask a girl. She will tell you what education means to her.

Most of you know what exactly needs to be done. You must not make small, stingy and short-term pledges – but commit to uphold the right to complete education and close the funding gap once and for all.

You must use the power you have to take action. Allocate 20% of your budgets to education. High-income countries: increase aid, cancel debts and set fair global tax rules so that low-income countries can spend more on girls.

Remove gender bias from curricula. Improve content. Make schools safe for girls.

And work together with those who are closest to the challenges to transform education.

Today, you heard from Somaya, Vanessa and Yelizaveta — they join millions of young people around the world who have written demands in the youth declaration and they stand ready to lead the way.

Soon you will hear from young leaders Ulises and Karimot on behalf of youth around the world.

I hope, in another seven years, we will speak to you again. But instead of urging you to help us, we’ll be cheering and celebrating the progress you’ve made for girls.

When you leave the room today, please ask yourselves:

How many more generations are you willing to sacrifice?

How long will you make girls wait for what you promised?

How many more times do we have to stand on this stage in order to be heard?

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist, student, UN messenger of peace and the youngest Nobel Laureate. As co-founder of Malala Fund, she is building a world where every girl can learn and lead without fear.

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The Powerful Lessons from Malala Yousafzai's UN Speech

Discover the powerful lessons from Malala Yousafzai's inspiring UN speech. Learn how her words advocate for education, equality, and peace worldwide.

Malala Yousafzai speech in 2013 at the United Nations was an example of passionate advocacy for education as a fundamental right for all children, especially girls, emphasizing the transformative power of knowledge in shaping a better world. Malala's journey from a remote village in Pakistan to the halls of Oxford University and the United Nations is a story of personal triumph and a testament to one voice's power to inspire global change. Her legacy reminds us that "the pen is mightier than the sword."

Early activism

Let's explore Malala Yousafzai's early activism and how her childhood shaped her into the advocate she is today.

The beginning of the journey

Malala Yousafzai became famous at 11 when she began writing a diary for the BBC World Service in Urdu, under the pseudonym Gul Makai, describing life under Taliban rule.

In her blog, Malala shared the truth about the closure of schools for girls. Since then, Malala and members of her family have regularly received threats.

Attack and recovery

In October 2012, Taliban extremists attacked Malala because of her campaign to support education for Pakistani girls. She received a severe bullet wound in the head and almost died. After surgery and rehabilitation in Great Britain, the girl, with the participation of journalist Christine Lamb, wrote a memoir, "I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education and Was Shot".

In 2013, Malala was awarded the UN Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. In 2014, Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for "the fight against the oppression of young people and for their right to education," becoming the youngest laureate in the award's history. In 2017, she became a United Nations Messenger of Peace. 

Key speeches analysis

Internationally recognized speaker Malala Yousafzai has addressed numerous audiences worldwide, including the United Nations General Assembly, the G7 Meeting, and the Canadian Parliament. She aims to raise awareness of girls' education 's social and economic impact and empower them to reach their potential.

Malala Yousafzai succeeds in rhetoric. Her speeches catch, are quoted, and attract attention. She speaks confidently and even knows how to joke during her speeches, which creates a unique atmosphere when the halls of the most influential organizations in the world are filled with sincere laughter and applause.

UN speech on her 16th birthday

In 2013, in New York , the 16-year-old Pakistani Malala Yousafzai addressed hundreds of United Nations Youth Assembly delegates and thousands of spectators without bitterness or malice, with mercy and confidence. Malala received a standing ovation. It was the first time Malala spoke in public after the attack.

On July 12, 2013, the United Nations celebrated Malala Day . It is now remembered every year as a symbol of education activism . This event brought together hundreds of young leaders to urge world leaders to ensure free and compulsory education for every child worldwide. The meeting included speeches by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Vuk Jeremić, President of the General Assembly, and Ahmad Alhendawi, the Secretary-General 's Envoy on Youth.

Desire for a peaceful future

Inspired by her parents and world rights activists such as Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Malala called on world powers to put peace at the center of their policies and said she was fighting for women's rights because they suffer the most.

Malala said the Taliban attack did not change anything in her life, except that, in her words, weakness, fear, and hopelessness disappeared from her mind.

Mercy and forgiveness

What is surprising about Yousafzai's speech is Malala's confidence and voice. As a 16-year-old girl, she bravely talked about the attack on her. What is even more impressive is the theme of forgiveness in this speech. Not much time had passed, but she calmly declared that she did not harbor evil but wished that the children of terrorists could also study so that there would be more peace and fewer wars. In many parts of the world, especially in Pakistan and Afghanistan , extremism , wars, and conflicts prevent children from attending school, according to Malala.

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45 Best Malala Yousafzai Quotes On Education & Bravery

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist who, at just 15 years old , was shot in the head by the Taliban for her outspoken advocacy for girls' education. After miraculously surviving the attack, she has continued to speak out about the importance of education for all children, regardless of gender.

In October of 2012, she became the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize . Malala went on to write the bestselling book I Am Malala and co-founded the Malala Fund , a nonprofit organization that provides girls with access to quality education. She graduated from Oxford University in 2020.

Malala’s courage and conviction have made her a global symbol of resilience and hope, and she continues to work tirelessly towards ensuring that all children have access to education. Her story is an inspiration to us all.

Since 2013 , the world has honored Malala's dedication to education by celebrating Malala Day every year on July 12th .

We've collected her best quotes about education, bravery, and fighting for what's right:

The Best Malala Yousafzai Quotes

Famous inspiring quotes .

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” — Malala Yousafzai

“One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” — Malala Yousafzai

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” — Malala Yousafzai

“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.” — Malala Yousafzai

On Feminism

“We must tell girls their voices are important.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Our men think earning money and ordering around others is where power lies. They don't think power is in the hands of the woman who takes care of everyone all day long, and gives birth to their children.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I remember when my friends and I would decorate our hands with henna on special occasions. And instead of drawing flowers and patterns, we would paint our hands with mathematical formulas and equations.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture . 

“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.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I tell my story, not because it is unique, but because it is not. It is the story of many girls.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture

“I had one hope for today: that Afghan girls walking to school would not be sent back home. But the Taliban did not keep their promise. They will keep finding excuses to stop girls from learning — because they are afraid of educated girls and empowered women.” — Malala Yousafzai, in a tweet .

“All we are asking is for girls to be able to go to school, for women to be safer... we are not asking for a privilege, these are like basic human rights.” — Malala Yousafzai, in a interview for BBC Politics .

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On Education

“Education is one of the blessings of life — and one of its necessities.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture .

“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.”   — Malala Yousafzai

“The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I don't want to be thought of as the ‘girl who was shot by the Taliban’ but the ‘girl who fought for education.’ This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.” — Malala Yousafzai

“When someone takes away your pens you realize quite how important education is.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I truly believe the only way we can create global peace is through not only educating our minds, but our hearts and our souls.” — Malala Yousafzai

“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.” — Malala Yousafzai, before her murder attempt .

On Leadership

“I raise up my voice — not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard... we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don’t I take a step and move forward?” — Malala Yousafzai

“It seemed to me that everyone knows they will die one day. My feeling was nobody can stop death; it doesn't matter if it comes from a Talib or cancer. So I should do whatever I want to do.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I had two options. One was to remain silent and wait to be killed. And the second was to speak up and then be killed. I chose the second one. I decided to speak up.” ‍ — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize Lecture .

“We were scared, but our fear was not as strong as our courage.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.” — Malala Yousafzai

“My mother always told me, “hide your face people are looking at you.” I would reply, “it does not matter; I am also looking at them.”” — Malala Yousafzai

“At night our fear is strong... but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Don’t be afraid — if you are afraid you can’t move forward.” — Malala Yousafzai

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On the Nobel Peace Prize

“This award is not just for me. It is for those forgotten children who want an education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change.

I am here to stand up for their rights, to raise their voice... it is not time to pity them. It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture .

“As far as I know, I am just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education, who wants to see women having equal rights, and who wants peace in every corner of the world.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture . 

“I am those 66 million girls who are deprived of education. And today I am not raising my voice, it is the voice of those 66 million girls.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture . 

“In my own village, there is still no secondary school for girls. And it is my wish and my commitment, and now my challenge to build one so that my friends and my sisters can go to school there and get a quality education and get this opportunity to fulfill their dreams. This is where I will begin, but it is not where I will stop. I will continue this fight until I see every child in school.” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture . 

“Why is it that countries which we call “strong” are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?” — Malala Yousafzai, in her Nobel Peace Prize lecture . 

Short Quotes

“If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?” — Malala Yousafzai

“Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide.” — Malala Yousafzai

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.” — Malala Yousafzai

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” — Malala Yousafzai

“If people were silent nothing would change.” — Malala Yousafzai

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More I Am Malala Quotes

“Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’ and then forgotten.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I think everyone makes a mistake at least once in their life. The important thing is what you learn from it.” — Malala Yousafzai

“The Taliban could take our pens and books, but they couldn’t stop our minds from thinking.” — Malala Yousafzai

“There's nothing special about me. The only thing that’s different in my story is that my father did not stop me.” — Malala Yousafzai, in an interview with The Economist .

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.” ‍ — Malala Yousafzai

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Kerascoët is the joint pen name of the French illustrators, comics and animation artists Marie Pommepuy (b. 1978) and Sébastien Cosset (b. 1975). A married couple, they met while attending the Olivier de Serres art school. Kerascoët have worked on numerous bandes dessinées as well as children's books, and in advertising. Several of their comics have been published in English to critical acclaim. They were nominated for the Ignatz Award for Outstanding Graphic Novel for Beauty, and for an Eisner Award for their comic Beautiful Darkness.

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Malala Yousafzai

Malala Yousafzai S.St (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی‎; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ‎ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj]; born 12 July 1997) is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

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Customers find the story inspiring and great for starting conversations with kids. They also say the book is wonderful for all children with beautiful illustrations. Readers also praise the writing quality as beautiful and well-written.

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Customers find the story inspiring, well written, and full of hope. They also say it makes the story accessible and a great book to start conversations about life. Readers also mention that the beauty of her courage and inspiration translates wonderfully.

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Customers find the book wonderful for all children, as it allows them to see into the lives of others. They also say the story is child-sensitive and doesn't gloss over Malala being shot.

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Customers find the illustrations in the book beautiful.

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Customers find the book beautifully illustrated and well-told. They say it's good for both big and little kids.

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