Excerpts from Bhutto's "Diary" written for Slate.com in 1997
"I shout as loud as I can over the microphone, "Sir, why do they panic every time they hear the name of a woman?" That shuts them up. At least temporarily.
When I finish, the Treasury benches start discussing my speech. Their first speaker makes sexist remarks--"She is melodramatic. She should have gone to New York and performed in the theater. She would have been a prima donna."
Bored, I sit back and begin to read the "Tasbee," the Muslim rosary. When I finally get to my office in the Parliament I am too tired to meet the press.
We go to the upstairs lounge, put on CNN, call for some green tea, and sit down to watch and chat.
Bliss.
Tomorrow is another day."
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