Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism. - Benazir Bhutto

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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.

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