A 10-year-old girl from Pakistan who risks her life to stand up to the Taliban to fight for her right to an education.
Because inside our school, "we flew on the wings of knowledge. In a country where women aren't allowed out in public without a man, we girls traveled far and wide inside the pages of a book. In a land where many women can't read the prices in our markets, we did multiplication. In a place where, as soon as we were teenagers, we'd have to cover our heads and hide from the boys who'd been our childhood playmates, we ran as free as the wind." (34)
"My father was like a falcon, the one who dared to fly where others would not go." (50)
What I am finding is that we have much more in common than we have different, and every day we learn something new from one another. (181)
I love how she talks about her father throughout this book, but on page 185, she points how for years he has been brave enough to stand up for women's rights and right to an education, but it took him until they were living in England to take "on the pots and pans!" himself! Love that!
"My father was like a falcon, the one who dared to fly where others would not go." (50)
What I am finding is that we have much more in common than we have different, and every day we learn something new from one another. (181)
I love how she talks about her father throughout this book, but on page 185, she points how for years he has been brave enough to stand up for women's rights and right to an education, but it took him until they were living in England to take "on the pots and pans!" himself! Love that!