Paula Broadwell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Having a bunch of medals and badges doesnâ€™t necessarily mean youâ€™ve achieved anything, youâ€™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
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
I'm not in love with David Petraeus. But I think he does present a terrific role model.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Thinking #Role Models #Doe
If I'm strong, I'm not going to apologize for being strong.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Strong #Apologizing #Ifs
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

#Dream #Stars #Athlete
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
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
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
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.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Done #Innocent #Righteous
I haven't had senators advocating for me.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Advocating #Senators #Havens
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
When I get this kind of support, I feel validated in my decision to stand up for myself.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Support #Decision #Kind
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.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Book #Income #Relentless
I'm 100 percent serious. I've been fighting for equality for women's issues my entire life, in the military included.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Military #Fighting #Issues
I've moved on with my life and I'm trying to find a path to re-establish my career.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Careers #Trying #Path
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

#Jobs #Speaks Out #Tipping
We [in Think Broader.] went through and looked at coverage in different industries and were able to point out to newsrooms that they had these hidden biases. We'd do a review and provide a report card, and provide our suggestion on how to avoid bias.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Thinking #Suggestions #Different
The word is a label and I don't like it at all.
-- Paula Broadwell

#Labels

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