Shame and Survival

Monica Lewinsky’s Vanity Fair essay, now online in full:

In my own case, each easy click of that YouTube link reinforces the archetype, despite my efforts to parry it away: Me, America’s B.J. Queen. That Intern. That Vixen. Or, in the inescapable phrase of our 42nd president, “That Woman.”

It may surprise you to learn that I’m actually a person.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: May 28, 2014
Length: 20 minutes (5,051 words)
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