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Children need adult men in their lives.

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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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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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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.
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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
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Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.
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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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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 am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
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I'm wondering how someone who goes around wearing a wedding ring succeeded in the dating pool. Normally a wedding ring sends a flashing Do Not Enter message - except to those looking for flings with married people.
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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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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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I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.
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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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When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
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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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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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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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Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.
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The only solution seems to be for government to toughen the vaccination laws and close the loopholes that allow people to opt out for philosophical and so-called religious reasons. The laws need to make clear: no shot, no school.
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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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