Paula Broadwell Quotes

I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.

We have to raise our young boys to respect women and our young girls to demand respect and to get their values from something other than their physicality.

I haven't had senators advocating for me.

As an intelligence officer, if you don't have a security clearance, you really don't have a job. My military position was, and has been, frozen, for four years.

Hopefully women can work with [Ivanka Trump ] to influence up the chain of command. I think it's good for us, for women. It's a glimmer of hope.

I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

I also feel like I've done plenty of wrong things. I'm not innocent here, and I'm certainly not going to be righteous about that.

The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented.

I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.

When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.

I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.

Imagine what Ivanka Trump life has been like? She's been eaten alive by the media. I have empathy for that.

[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

I think Ivanka Trump she has this power and powerful women are reaching out to her and she needs to take advantage of that.

I think Donald Trump is the best person for the job. It comes back to redemption campaign rhetoric. They all say that stuff.[Barack] Obama and [Hillary] Clinton said that about each other.

I was incredulous as the bias of the media in terms of the candidates [for presidency]. I was incredulous at the fake news.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

I don't have the advocates. I don't have a good old boys network. Part of what I want to do is to create a good old girls network.

My peers are all in sensitive jobs - at the C.I.A., the National Security Council, working for the Department of Defense. They can't stand up for me in public.

I was a Ph.D. student at a very reputable university, I was a Harvard research associate at one of the world's premier leadership institutions.

I was an academic and I lost my assignment at Harvard. Meanwhile, [David Petraeus] gets invited to Harvard to become a fellow.

It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress].

I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

[My kids] were very young at the time and didn't realize what was going on. We told them that mom made a mistake and people want to talk about it in the news so they're outside our house.

When I fell, some people were in such shock that they didn't reach out. They were so mad at me, rather than having compassion for what happened. I lost a lot of friends.

If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.