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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.

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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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
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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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The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.
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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 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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Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.
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To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.
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The more shame, the more clicks. The more clicks, the more advertising dollars.
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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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And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.
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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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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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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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Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them
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I, myself, deeply regret what happened between me and President Clinton. Let me say it again: I. Myself. Deeply. Regret. What. Happened.
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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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Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
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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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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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