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Monica Lewinsky

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Monica Lewinsky
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: July 23
Businessperson
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Psychologist
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San Francisco County
California
Monica Samille Lewinsky
Monica S. Lewinsky
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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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It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.
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I tried to walk a line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal and that certain of my responses to questions about Ms. Lewinsky were false.
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Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.
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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 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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To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
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Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.
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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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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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Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.
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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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I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.
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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 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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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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Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them
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Do you want me to answer that?
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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
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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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