It's reducing my entire professional career and background to this one word [mistress]. Paula Broadwell More Quotes by Paula Broadwell More Quotes From Paula Broadwell 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. Paula Broadwell demand girl boys I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model. Paula Broadwell role-models doe thinking Having a bunch of medals and badges doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve achieved anything, you’ve got to do something beyond yourself to make a difference in life. Seek to be consequential in whatever you do. Paula Broadwell making-a-difference differences mean While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions. Paula Broadwell responsibility mistake believe My husband and I each had careers and two babies at home. They just demand everything from you. All the domestic duties fell to me and this resentment builds, as I think happens to a lot of young parents who have competing careers. Paula Broadwell husband home baby We had to communicate through our lawyers a couple of times over the years, and [David Petraeus] told me that people have been like, "Good job, Dave." Congratulating him. That's the double standard. I've concluded that sharing it won't change anything. Paula Broadwell couple jobs years 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. Paula Broadwell mad compassion people I was in such a state of mental shock and quickly spiraled into a depression at the multitude of loss. My husband, I thought, was going to leave me. I was cut off from this mentor and someone I cared for very much, David Petraeus, who also did nothing to stand up for me and in fact, empowered his surrogates to throw me under the bus, and that was devastating. Paula Broadwell cutting husband loss The story is framed around [avid Petraeus] resignation. So many headlines that followed talked about his ruined career. They completely ignore the fact that my career was ruined, other peoples' careers were ruined. They focus on him as the victim. Paula Broadwell avid focus careers I just figured, for the most part, mainstream networks stopped using [mistress word]. Those are small brush fires. The election made me realize we've got forest fires that we collectively need to be focused on. Paula Broadwell mistress fire needs It's the fact that you can reduce my whole life to one word, whatever it is, my entire career, my service to my country, my academic rigor, my courage in going to interview terrorists, and refugee camps, and third-world prisons. Paula Broadwell careers country world I haven't had senators advocating for me. Paula Broadwell advocating senators havens A lot of women were betting on me because there were so few role models and I let them down. They had put me on a pedestal. I maybe enjoyed being in that limelight, but I couldn't reverse what I had done. Paula Broadwell pedestal role-models done [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. Paula Broadwell mom mistake kids I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented. Paula Broadwell really-happy Sometime ago, I teamed up with a former Marine attack helicopter pilot. We were both frustrated by biased coverage of women in the military and said, let's form some kind of nonprofit entity where we can start highlighting the prevalence of bias in the media. Paula Broadwell marine media military I just genuinely believe in the concept of redemption and renewal, so I was happy. When I get beyond my feelings, I had my own family and friends and so many women across America come to me and say their blood was boiling, asking me how this could happen. Paula Broadwell believe blood america It's part of the reason I decided to speak out now. This was the tipping point for me. If it's O.K. for [David Petraeus ] to campaign for a job in the administration, then I'm going to campaign to get back out there, too. Paula Broadwell tipping speaks-out jobs I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career. Paula Broadwell careers path trying 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. Paula Broadwell stars athlete dream
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