Monica Lewinsky

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Changing behaviours begins with evolving beliefs.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Behaviour
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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.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Compassion
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My creativity comes from an unhoned place, if 'unhoned' is a word.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Creativity
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There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Growth
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She has slimmed down since the height of impeachment, her thick blow-dried hair as shiny as Russian sable and her creamy cleavage, as historic in its own way as Mount Rushmore, was quite wonderful to behold.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Blow
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I lost my public self, or had it stolen. In a way, it was a form of identity theft.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Self
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The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Sex
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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.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Self Worth
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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...
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Lying
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As painful and destructive as they are, the hateful comments allow us to map the underlying beliefs of many people in a way we've never been able to before. It's almost as if all of the negativity and misogyny needs to come to the surface so we can fully understand what it is, and how deep it goes, before we can begin to shift it. Of course, I wish it weren't there.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: People
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Be mindful of clickbait - sensational stories designed to humiliate. Click with compassion.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Compassion
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Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Feeling Alone
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Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Sports
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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.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Exercise
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Online we have a compassion deficit
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Compassion
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I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Dirty
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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.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Goal
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I would feel a little awkward because of my connection with politics.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Awkward
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When you see anyone being targeted, support her or him with a positive comment or emoji.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Support
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The most potent thing we can do is to bring more compassion online.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Compassion
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Constructive criticism is legitimate, but when it escalates to vitriol, it affects us all, because celebrities and influencers are part of the collective consciousness.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Criticism
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Women need to support other women, not cut them down. And that goes for recognizable women too.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Cutting
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Do you want me to answer that?
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Running