Malala Yousafzai

So I think with my mom, I have these conversations, and I know that she had a very different childhood in her village.

None of her, like, sisters or friends or she herself could go to school.

Like, you know, I even asked her in the recent years what her dream was growing up.

Tell that.

Her dream was to just find the right guy who would be a nice husband and who would just get her like nice food and she could go shopping.

And I said, but no, mom, like what was your dream?

And there was no answer.

And that broke my heart that there has been a generation or many generations of women who never even had dreams for themselves.

So she was always trying to protect me because they had seen the worst things happen to girls if they dare to disobey any of the norms.

So...

But sometimes it was always like an argument between us, like, what am I wearing?

What am I doing?

Yeah, but in the end, we sort of resolved it.

Yeah, thank you.

Yes, it's in the north of Pakistan.

Yeah, so I started this school with the Nobel Peace Prize money, and it was my dream to make a school in the village of my parents where there was no high school.

And I said, if we can make a school in this marginalized, mountainous area that is often left behind, we can make a school anywhere in the world.

So the school finally had the first class graduate this year, and I met those girls.

And it was empowering for the whole community because those girls are changing history.

They're changing culture.