Malala Yousafzai
4/20/202645 min
Nobel Laureate Malala Yousafzai spoke with Terry Gross about bravery, marriage, and defying cultural norms. She was 15 when a Taliban gunman shot her, in response to her advocacy for girls’ education. “When I look back, I'm like, yes, that was a crazy thing that I did. I put my life at risk. But, at the time, what scared me more was a life without an education as a girl. It terrified me.”
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Terry Gross. As remarkable as it is that my guest, Malala Yousafzai, won the Nobel Peace Prize when she was seventeen, there are remarkable ways she's been living her life since then. Let's start with the famous part of her story. She was born in nineteen ninety-seven and grew up in a remote region of Pakistan's Swat Valley, near the Afghanistan border. In two thousand eight, after the Taliban invaded her town, terrorizing the people, they banned girls' education. She publicly spoke out for her right and the right of all girls to go to school. As payback in twenty twelve, when she was fifteen, she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman. She was flown to a hospital in England, where she continues to live. Her recovery was miraculous. It's when I read her recent memoir, Finding My Way, that I learned how the bullet changed the course of her life, thrusting her into a new culture and changing her in ways that didn't quite fit