Malala Yousafzai: Finding My Way: 10 things we learned about modern love from Malala Yousafzai

For most of her life, Malala Yousafzai believed love was a detour — a soft, sentimental distraction from the grand script history had written for her. In a candid conversation with The New York Times’ “Modern Love” podcast, the girl who defied the Taliban’s bullets and became a global icon before she was old enough to vote admitted that she once told herself her “face and body were meant for service, not romance. ” Activism was purpose; intimacy was an indulgence for people with easier lives. And yet, somewhere between late-night essays at Oxford and rooftop adventures she wasn’t supposed to have, Malala stumbled into the very thing she had sworn off — love. Not just the cinematic kind with a man, but the deeper, quieter one: with herself, her imperfections, and a future she had never d