Paula Broadwell Quotes

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• 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

  Girl, Boys, Demand

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

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Role Models, Doe

  "What Petraeus Scandal Could Mean For Working Women". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. November 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Mean, Differences, Making A Difference

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

  Paula Broadwell

  Strong, Apologizing, Ifs

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• The national media don't know me. They know the caricature that was created of me by journalists who were frankly jealous of my access. And it was a very negative caricature. There's this propensity for blaming a woman. It comes down to implicit bias. There are so many studies that show this.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jealous, Media, Negative

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• 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

  Husband, Cutting, Loss

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• 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

  Baby, Husband, Home

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• My local paper, The New York Times, Yahoo News, CBS, and The Washington Post, all agreed to stop using the word 'mistress.' The big one was the Associated Press. They made a style change, and it's the gold standard that sets the guide for news outlets around the world. That's a small step for the American language, a medium step for feminism, and a huge step for me personally.

  Paula Broadwell

  New York, Style, Mistress

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• 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

  Mistake, Believe, Responsibility

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• 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

  Compassion, Mad, People

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• 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

  Careers, Avid, Focus

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• [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

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• 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

  Fire, Mistress, Needs

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• 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

  Country, Careers, World

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Military, Years

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• I haven't had senators advocating for me.

  Paula Broadwell

  Advocating, Senators, Havens

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• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Order, People

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• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Jobs, Thinking, Campaigns

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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

  Paula Broadwell

  Academic, Assignments, Lost

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

  Paula Broadwell

  Powerful, Thinking, Needs

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• I was encouraged, though, because I saw feminist writers - male and female - calling out the bias. I feel like more and more writers are cognizant of the problems and are willing to try to challenge them.

  Paula Broadwell

  Feminist, Challenges, Trying

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• 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.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Influence, Trump

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• 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

  Military, Marine, Media

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• You can reclaim your own narrative.

  Paula Broadwell

  Narrative

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