Emily Yoffe Quotes

When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

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.

Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

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.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

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.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

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.

Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

Sometimes people have a wild past because they have an essentially wild nature, and that's how they plan to go through life. Sometimes such people settle into happy monogamy, and can be content there because they never have to wonder, "What did I miss?"

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

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.

Keep in mind that when you tell people to come see you, they might not get the idea about when it's time to leave.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

Setting up a college fund would be a great way to redirect the tangible evidence of Daddy's love.

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

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.

Children need adult men in their lives.

When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.

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.

As far as types preferring other types, people of the same type can understand each others' perspective very well, but also drive each other crazy because they see their flaws magnified.

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.

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.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

The sadness from reading letters that you know you can't help because it's a person who's in extremis and their problems are not soluble by an advice column.

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.

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.

I try to direct people in distress to the right resources, where they can get comprehensive help. I've heard from many people that simply putting down in a letter what is going on in their lives is therapeutic in and of itself.

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.

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.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

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.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

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.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

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.

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.