Today Malala Yousafzai turns 25.What do you think about her?

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1. Sorry. Never heard of her.

2. Today, with your post, was the first time I’ve heard that name.

3. For background, she was shot in the head when she was 16ish by Pakistani Taliban for speaking up for women’s right to education she survived and went on to win Nobel prize.

   [Source for her birthday ](https://twitter.com/Malala/status/1546819139125362690?t=-kaXHh1lBK_3jaIke1OblQ&s=19)

4. Who?

5. I keep forgetting that she’s younger than my brother

   Shot in the head at 15 god damn

6. She’s been out of the news for quite a few years now. Likely, a lot of people won’t recognize the name right away

   But when her story first came to light, it was all over the news for a good few years.

7. She was huge news in the US nearly a decade ago when she addressed the United Nations and met Hillary Clinton, etc., but her profile is lower here nowadays. Partly because the media lost interest: a heroic child activist recovering from a near-fatal attack is a big story, another twenty-something activist in the crowd, not so much.

8. Haven’t thought about her in a decade. Hope she’s doing well, but other than that I don’t care.

9. No idea who that is

10. hope she’s doing well. She was studying in the UK, right?

11. She’s the girl who the Taliban tried to assassinate for blogging and speaking out in favor of women’s education? I think that’s a noble and worthy goal.

12. [I hadn’t heard of her till now but when I looked her up and watched this video it made me cry lol](https://youtu.be/CXvs1vwiD0M)

13. Hasn’t been in the news in a long time. Haven’t thought about her in a long time until reading this.

    The real cynical answer is that she is like Greta Thunberg and was a child political prop used by activists.

    The difference is Malala actually suffered to get to her activism and I think is much more impressive than Thunberg.

14. She seems nice

15. She’s definitely got a lot more drive than I do. I’m sure she’ll continue to have an impact.

16. I actually think about her fairly often because she’s in 2 different books that my 2 year old daughter has me read to her all the time. I heard she got married somewhat recently? Good for her. I hope she’s doing well. She’s an inspiration to young women.

17. I think she is brave, intelligent and well spoken. A role model.

    Why is she disliked in Pakistan?

18. Never heard of her. I looked up her Wikipedia page and it sounds like she does good work, she just doesn’t really make the news here.

19. I like her quite a bit. The thing is, we should never have heard of her. We know who she is because of what monstrous people did to her.

    I wish her a happy and prosperous life and I admire her courage.

20. No opinion of her, really. Brave, inspirational, yada yada.

21. Incredible advocate for education.