Emily Yoffe Quotes
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I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts of bestiality or child sexual abuse.
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Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.
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Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.
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I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.
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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.
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The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.
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I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.
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Children need adult men in their lives.
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The biggest problem is that people want to tell the whole story, and they write letters that are way longer than anything I could possibly run.
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There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.
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The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.
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Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.
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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.
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When my daughter left for college, I lost my in-house consultant to youth culture. There's just stuff I don't get. And there's something kind of pathetic about someone my age trying to pretend she gets it, so I don't try to pretend.
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Most women at some point or many points in their lives will have to deal with an unwanted advance and having the confidence to be "rude" and say no is an important skill to develop.
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I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.
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It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.
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I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.
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People often recommend, "Why do you ask?" as a good conversation stopper. But that really doesn't end the conversation, it just leaves the other person sputtering for a response. I like, "You'll be the first to know.".
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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.
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When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.
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I marvel with distress that in 2015 we are fighting the vaccination wars. It is deeply disturbing that people who should be able to weigh discredited so-called studies instead believe garbage, and so are willing to endanger their children and others. I sincerely hope this madness burns itself out before a lot more people get hurt.
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An alcoholic 47-year-old woman with teenagers who thinks a guy in his mid-20s is a good prospect as a partner definitely has some judgment and character flaws.
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My inbox [showed me] how much pain there is in the world. I appreciated hearing from people, but it was hard to know I couldn't do anything.
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