The word is a label and I don't like it at all.

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

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

I want to serve. I love my country. I love service above self and I don't want my talents to go to waste. I also want to send a message to other men and women who've tripped over themselves, or over life: that you need to serve your time in purgatory.

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.

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.

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.