Tanya Mosley

You write that you'd convinced yourself you'd never date, you'd never marry, that you'd be like a quote, like a nun but Muslim.

Once you got past yourself and you and your now husband, Assar, fell madly in love, which folks can read all about it in this book.

But you were resistant to marriage for a long time.

Why were you against marriage?

Yes, you read a lot of books about feminism and marriage.

Well, you made this list of questions for him before you marry him.

I mean, you asked him about fidelity, about whether he'd control what you wear, whether he'd take another wife.

These were real considerations that you had to know.

You were trying to extract guarantees, though.

Yes.

And he tried to give them to you, but then he said something to you that was really kind of profound.

He said, there are no magic words to take away all of your doubts.

Why was that the right answer for you to kind of come to the realization that this was the step that you should take?

Malala Yousafzai, thank you so much.

Malala Yousafzai's new memoir is called Finding My Way.

A new five-part biographical documentary about Martin Scorsese, analyzing the film director's life and work, is appearing now on Apple TV+.

Directed by Rebecca Miller, it's called Mr. Scorsese, and our TV critic David Bianculli has this review.

David Bianculli reviewed Mr. Scorsese, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Coming up, Ken Burns talks about his new documentary series, The American Revolution.

I'm Tanya Mosley, and this is Fresh Air Weekend.