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

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

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

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

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

People are rushed and inspired by the success of Indian writers, and are falling over themselves to write novels. Every Indian is writing a novel right now. No one wants to revise.

The Presence is our own presence. We are not getting anything from the outside. We already have all we need inside.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

Silence is a way of saying: we do not have to entertain each other; we are okay as we are.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

All literature is gossip.