Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani-born ____, with Pakistani and Kurdish ____, who chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), a centre-left political party in Pakistan. Bhutto was the ____ woman elected to lead a ____ state, having ____ been Prime Minister of Pakistan (1988–1990; 1993–1996). She was Pakistan's first and to date only female ____ minister. She was ____ on 27 December 2007, after departing a PPP rally in the Pakistani ____ of Rawalpindi, two weeks before the ____ Pakistani general election of 2008 in which she was a leading opposition ____. Indira Gandhi was ____ Indira Nehru to Jawaharlal Nehru. She was the ____ Prime Minister of the Republic of India for ____ consecutive terms from 1966 ____ 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 ____ her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen ____. India's only female prime minister to date, she remains the world's ____ serving female Prime Minister as of 2011. She was also the ____ Indian Prime Minister to have declared an ____ in order to 'rule by decree' and the only Indian Prime Minister to have been ____. Khadijah bint Khuwaylid was the first ____ of the Islamic ____ Muhammad. Khadijah successfully ____ her father's business interests and preserved the ____'s fortune. It is said ____ when the Quraysh's trade caravans ____ to embark upon their lengthy and arduous ____ either to Syria during the summer or to Yemen during the winter, Khadijah's caravan ____ the caravans of all other traders of the Quraish put together. She is ____ in Islam as Muhammad's first wife, and one of the "____ of the believers" . In 1975 Margaret Thatcher became ____ of the Conservative Party and became the ____ woman to head a major UK political party. Following the 1979 general ____ she became ____'s first female ____ Minister. Her political ____ and economic policies emphasised deregulation, particularly of the ____ sector, flexible labour markets, and the sale or closure of state-owned companies and withdrawal of subsidies to others. She survived an ____ attempt in 1984. She took a hard line against trade ____, and her tough rhetoric in opposition to the Soviet ____ earned her the nickname of the "Iron Lady". Mother Theresa was a Catholic ____ of Albanian ethnicity and Indian ____. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in ____, India in 1950. For over 45 years she ministered to the ____, sick, orphaned, and dying, while ____ the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other ____. She was internationally renowned as a ____ and advocate for the poor and ____, due in part to a documentary and book "Something Beautiful for God" by Malcolm Muggeridge. She ____ the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilian ____, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American ____ rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called "the first ____ of civil rights", and "the ____ of the freedom movement". On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks ____ to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give ____ her seat to make ____ for a white passenger. Parks's act of ____ became an important ____ of the modern Civil Rights Movement and Parks became an international ____ of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including ____ leader Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to launch him to national prominence in the civil rights movement. Simone de Beauvoir was a ____ existentialist philosopher, public intellectual, and social ____. She wrote ____, essays, biographies, an autobiography in several volumes, and monographs on ____, politics, and social issues. She is now best ____ for her metaphysical novels, ____ "She Came to Stay" and "The Mandarins", and ____ her 1949 treatise "The Second Sex", a detailed ____ of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary ____. She is also noted for her lifelong polyamorous ____ with Jean-Paul Sartre.

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