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Malala Yousafzai

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

So

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

But then marriage just felt like a very heavy topic for me.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

I even went to read some books.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Yes, I was like, please, Virginia Woolf, help me.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Bell Hooks, can you share a few words of wisdom?

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Yeah, I mean, like poor Asar.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

I was asking him every possible question about every horrible things that I had seen or heard about.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Like, you know, a husband doesn't allow his wife to work.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

A husband has a problem that the wife earns more money.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

The husband is of this view that he can marry, like, more wives or things like that.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

And he is, you know, okay with, like, telling the wife off or, like, that she has to live by his rules and all of that.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

So I said, who knows?

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Like, I know he's a nice guy, but who knows?

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

I think it's better to get a verbal...

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

It's just the fear, the fear that we all carry.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

I knew that I was a very independent person.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

I did not need a husband.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

Literally, I did not need him.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

But I wanted him and I wanted to make sure that this was like worth my time.

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Malala Yousafzai On Breaking Rules & Finding Her Way

But when he, you know, when he said that, that, you know, no answers would come.