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What's Your Mantra?

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What's Your Mantra?

E. Jean Carroll
Apr 15, 2023
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Do you have a holy utterance that summons your energy?

What is it?

When do you say it?

What powers do you gather with it?

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Nolan Green
Writes of sound and fury
Apr 15Liked by E. Jean Carroll

Years ago a professor with whom I admired greatly handed me a folded note and walked off. I opened it and it had just two words...

Be Relentless

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HarissaMama
Apr 15Liked by E. Jean Carroll

Power of the matriarchs

Because I come from Leah, my great grandmother who ran away from the police in the middle of the night coming to “arrest” her and her elderly husband to send them to concentration camp. She figured she had nothing to lose. She survived. And from her daughter Rosza, who was one of the toughest, smartest women I ever met- absolutely fearless. And from her daughter Lea, my mother, who learned how to fly a plane and skydive at age 50, because she’d always wanted to fly - who never said no to an invitation to celebrate- anything- and who found “it” all endlessly fascinating and wild.

Power of the matriarchs.

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