But I would defy anyone to go back over the years and tell me anyone whose career I've ruined, anyone whom I've driven out of the service, anyone I've fired from a job.
Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career.
We've talked through the fact that our family will be attacked. Our family will be dragged through the mud. My businesses that I've helped build and create will be attacked and dragged through the mud. That's politics. I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it or thinking about it.
No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.
Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.
I've been kind of thrown under the bus a few times in my career.
I sent The World Well Lost to one editor who rejected it on sight, and then wrote a letter to every other editor in the field warning them against the story, and urging them to reject it on sight without reading it.
DePaul's plot to deny me tenure had nothing to do with my faults. In fact, and ironically, it viciously attacked me and destroyed my career because of my virtues. Which, although few in number, they still found threatening.
People are at the mercy of internet trolls who bring people who are excellent in their fields down to their level. They're diminishing someone's flame to make theirs brighter.
Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.
I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
I think people are forcefully dragging me under bad light to ruin my career.
I've never destroyed someone's career.
Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.
There are still men in the professional or behind the scenes world that are controlling women to build credibility.
I remember my agent at ICM at the beginning of my career telling me that I wasn't pretty enough, that I was always going to be a quirky sidekick. And he was an ogre of a man. He should have been carrying a torch. If he was in a bar, he couldn't have come near me, and then he was deciding my fate.
We're dealing with character assassins. We're dealing with career assassins. That's who the media is today.
Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.
