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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
Shame
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Humiliation
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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
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The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.
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I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.
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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 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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I was Patient Zero. The first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet.
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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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