The Sentence Not Heard ‘Round the World — I Heard You: An Open Letter to E. Jean Carroll

Jill Nagle
4 min readJun 29, 2023

Dear E. Jean Carroll:

Like other women I know, my stomach lurched, perhaps along with yours, in rhythm with the vicissitudes of the trial you had the courage to commence. We were thrilled that the man who bragged about assaulting women at his whim could finally get his comeuppance. Or would he? Twist. Churn.

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Jill Nagle

Working on the forthcoming book Skin in the Game: How White People Benefit from Dismantling White Supremacy. Catalyzing at EvolutionaryWorkplace.com.