identity Quotes

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.

I'm not becoming western; I am still following my Pashtun culture, and I'm wearing a shalvar kamiz, a dupatta on my head.

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

I don't cover my face because I want to show my identity.

I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.