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Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.

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
Humiliation
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Shame
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Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.
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To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
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Sure, my boss took advantage of me, but I will always remain firm on this point: it was a consensual relationship. Any 'abuse' came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.
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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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Try and have neutral compassion toward the perpetrator. Step outside the sting of the incident and realize that this person is trying to erase their own inadequacy or unhappiness by transferring it to you. It won't make the incident go away, but it's one thing you can do to reduce the pain.
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But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that ... I was worthy of being number one to a man.
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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
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He ended it. He just said he didn't - he - well, what he said was that he didn't feel it was right, and you know, I mean that's - because he ended it, he'd probably have to be the one to answer that.
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Online we have a compassion deficit
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I was brought up with lies all the time... that's how you got along... I have lied my entire life...
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Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.
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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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And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
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It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.
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I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.
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So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.
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When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.
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