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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

Emily Yoffe

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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
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Journalist
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People
Juggle
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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
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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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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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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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