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

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 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.

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.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

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.

I'm really happy for [David Petraeus]. He's exceptionally talented.