Monica Lewinsky Quotes
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I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.
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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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Let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention.
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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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People who know Clinton knew the guy has a real problem keeping his hands off women.
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When you see anyone being targeted, support her or him with a positive comment or emoji.
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Public humiliation is a commodity and shame is an industry.
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My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.
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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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There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
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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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I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.
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The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.
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Anyone who is suffering from shame and public humiliation needs to know one thing: You can survive it... You can insist on a different ending to your story. Have compassion for yourself. We all deserve compassion, and to live both online and off in a more compassionate world.
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Do you want me to answer that?
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Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.
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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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At one point, I actually, ironically, thought I might go into criminology and work with the FBI.
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I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.
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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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Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.
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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 would feel a little awkward because of my connection with politics.
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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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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, 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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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
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Some people are born great and some have greatness thrust upon them
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We talk a lot about our right to freedom of expression, but we need to talk more about our responsibility to freedom of expression. We all want to be heard, but let's acknowledge the difference between speaking up with intention and speaking up for attention
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