I was born in a middle class family in a small town in southeast Missouri. During my childhood, my mother worked as a English teacher and my father as a salesman. Our family moved to Carbondale Illinois in 1965 where I met and married a much older Pakistani man. Within six months of the wedding I traveled to West Pakistan and lived for almost two years as a Pakistani bride. I was only nineteen years old and was totally controlled by a Muslim man. I learned much from living in Pakistan about the treatment of women in Musli more...
