In the autobiography I am Malala, Malala talks about her childhood in Pakistan. During 2008 in Pakistan, girls were not allowed to go to school. Malala couldn’t handle being banned from school anymore and spoke publicly for girls in Pakistan and their right to learn in school when she was 15, which made her a target of people who strongly disagreed and disliked her thoughts.
On her way home from school, a masked gunman came up to her school bus and asked “Who’s Malala?” and shot her in the head. Although she got shot, Malala survived and continues to speak and fight publicly on behalf of girls until they have their right to learn in school.
In 2014, she received a Nobel Peace Prize and became the youngest Nobel Prize, winner. Malala is a big part of encouraging empowerment of women and helped make it legal for girls in Pakistan to go to school.
‘And then, out of that silence came thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims and stop our ambitions but nothing changed in my life except this: Weakness, fear, and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.’
