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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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