I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

by Malala Yousafzai

that I was the apple of my father’s eye. A rare

How had this happened? How did an unschooled fanatic turn himself into a kind of radio god? And why was no one prepared to defy him?

“This is not the Stone Age,” I said. “But it feels like we are going backward. Girls are getting more deprived of our rights.”

It was the twenty-first century! How could one man stop more than fifty thousand girls from going to school?

A madman was about to kick more than fifty thousand girls out of school in a matter of days, and all people seemed to want to talk about was whether I should have worn a veil!

But I learned another lesson watching the show. Although Betty and her friends had certain rights, women in the United States were still not completely equal; their images were used to sell things. In some ways, I decided, women are showpieces in American society, too.