[Fighting for equality for women] that's what my mission has been for the last years.

It really felt like a tidal wave of bias washed over our country and we're still soaked in it.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.