Malala Yousafzai

And the only reason that I could go and participate in speeches, I could express myself, was because my father never stopped me.

So there's always something in society.

There's these voices, there's patriarchy.

And sometimes it's the men speaking those words or it's the mother in the house who is reimposing all of that.

But it's just telling girls to, it's just pulling girls back.

Yeah, he loved speaking in public himself.

So it's like, like father, like daughter.

So he always wanted his kids to express themselves.

And I remember whenever my dad would be hanging out with his older friends, his colleagues, he would just encourage the kids to be there as well, just to listen to the conversations.

And whenever I wanted to share my opinion, even though I was like nine or 10 years old,

He would be like listening to me very carefully.

And sometimes like adults ignore kids because they don't think that the kid's point of view is important.

But for my father, like if I asked a question, it was a very serious, thoughtful question and he would take time to respond to it.

So I felt valued.

Yeah, I wonder, like, why was my father so different than a lot of the other men in the community?

And it's one of those questions that, you know, he has tried to answer as well himself.

He sometimes say that he had to unlearn a lot before he had to learn.

Because when you grew up in a patriarchy, you have to...

dismiss the privileges.

You have to question why you get favors and others don't.