"I always have felt that now I need to live up to the expectation [of the Nobel]," Yousafzai says. "It was given for the work I had done, but it was also given for the work that is ahead of us. ... I have to work for the rest of my life to prove that it was well deserved."
"When you face violence, harm and trauma yourself, you understand how terrible and horrible it is," she says. "Whether it's girls being banned from school in Afghanistan, or girls' schools being bombed in Gaza, or children being forced into labor, or girls being married off. I just hope that we can create a world without any war and terror and harm for children."
Malala Yousafzai spoke out when the Taliban closed schools and banned women from public life in Swat Valley. In 2012, at age 15, she was shot in the head while riding a school bus and survived. Survival transformed her into a symbol of resistance, politicized and scrutinized. At 17 she received the Nobel Peace Prize and felt pressure to justify the honor through lifelong work. At Oxford she navigated identity, experimented with typical college experiences, and confronted ongoing trauma from the attack while continuing global advocacy for girls' education and child protection.
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