Girls Quotes
She was referring to Malala, a young Pakistani girl who was shot and badly wounded in an assassination attempt. She had publicly advocated girls attendance at school—a practice banned by the ultra-fundamentalist Taliban.
She had urged that the age of consent be raised from 13 to 18 when one of the Lords responded that it should be LOWERED to 10.
This quotation was retweeted 600,000 times in the immediate aftermath of the speech. In 2016 it was retweeted more than any other political quotation.
She was being questioned by a reporter about the many women who had reported that the Alabama politician Roy Moore had accosted them when they were minors and he was in his 30s and the District Attorney. 3 weeks after she made this statement about Judge Moore who was running for the Senate, her father Donald Trump endorsed Moore strongly and even recorded Robocalls which want thought the state urging the selection of the man his daughter wanted to be in a "special place in Hell."