"My life changed completely when I was in love with a person. You will never be the same person as you are in this moment. He will also not be the same person as he is in that moment. And when you start your life together, you can grow together. I immediately felt that with Asser, that he is so adventurous. He likes trying new things."
"I am an activist for girls everywhere. I can fight for myself. But it was - It just felt like I could not, I just did not want it to be a situation where now suddenly I was getting married and this guy was like, you know, I have to fix another guy, and I have to fix another problem while I'm advocating for so many other things. I did not want it to be like another journey of activism for me."
Malala Yousafzai married Asser Malik in 2021 after careful consideration of personal and political concerns. She felt immediate happiness and recognized Asser as adventurous, funny, and eager to try new things. She worried that marriage could reproduce patriarchal control and become another arena of activism to fix someone else. She feared whether Asser would remain the same person over time. She concluded that love changes both partners and allows them to grow together. She decided that if marriage made life easier and happier, it merited consideration rather than automatic rejection.
Read at www.nytimes.com
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