identity Quotes

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

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

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

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

The real Malala is gone somewhere, and I can't find her.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.

I would like to find a way in which people in Saudi Arabia could learn that they can be something other than a Muslim. Some people may not realize this. Of course, there is the problem that you can get in trouble or get stoned.

I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'