Quotes from Paula Broadwell

A few months into my research, General Petraeus, who was then leading Central Command, invited me to go for a run with him and his team along the Potomac River during one of his visits to Washington. I figured I could interview him while we ran.

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

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.

I was driven when I was younger. Driven at West Point where it was much more competitive in that women were competing with men on many levels, and I was driven in the military and at Harvard, both competitive environments.

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

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

I think it is important for working moms to recognize that family is the most important.

Yes, I wear a number of hats. But my most important title is mom and wife.

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

I introduced myself to then-Lieutenant General Petraeus and told him about my research interests; he gave me his card and offered to put me in touch with other researchers and service members working on the same issues.

[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 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.

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

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

I grew up in a strong faith-based family. I think I have selected to return to those roots for strength, for my family, for myself and to protect our children and to forgive others and move on and face forward.

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

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

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.