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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.

Monica Lewinsky

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Monica Lewinsky
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 23
Businessperson
Celebrity
Entrepreneur
Fashion Designer
Psychologist
Social Psychologist
San Francisco County
California
Monica Samille Lewinsky
Monica S. Lewinsky
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I mean, I felt terrible. And in the beginning, I mean, I was completely devastated. I mean, can you imagine the kind of guilt that you would feel, and the responsibility?
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I did though at least expect him to correct the false statements he made when he was trying to protect the Presidency. Instead, he talked about it as though I had laid it all out there for the taking. I was the buffet and he just couldn't resist the dessert.
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I was worried about my mom more than I was worried about the president. And then I was worried about the president, and then I was worried about myself.
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So I think it's - what was important to me is that I found that I can't change the fact that people already have made an opinion about me. But I don't think that should stop me from trying to correct some of the misperceptions that are out there.
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And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
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Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
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I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
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He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
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I mean, there was a portion, of course, that I think, when I look back now, that there was a portion of what attracted me must have been the awe of him being a powerful man in this environment, not to take away from who he is as a real person.
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Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
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I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.
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Online we have a compassion deficit
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Getting and keeping my immunity became very important to me. For I needed to take care of myself and my family. No one else was worried about me.
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Building a more compassionate society is going to be a bilateral exercise between individuals and the brands that represent their aspirations, their values and their truths. People make brands. If people are compassionate, brands will be compassionate in return.
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I chose to not wear a wire and tape people. I chose to not get immunity until - were accepted, whatever - until the independent counsel's office was comfortable with what I said was the truth.
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Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.
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Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.
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At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.
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