Quote

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

Emily Yoffe

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
Columnist
Journalist
Juggle
Graduate
Graduates
Jobs
Two
School
Many
People

More quotes by Emily Yoffe

Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
When people are really drunk they have a propensity to harm themselves and others - they fall off buildings, they drive into other cars.
Emily Yoffe
Image
You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.
Emily Yoffe
Image
I think it's helpful for kids to know that their parents weren't perfect, that they messed up and learned from their mistakes. So be open about some of your own struggles or express gratitude that your kids are taking advantage of the opportunities they have instead of squandering many of them, the way you did.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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?
Emily Yoffe
Image
If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
Emily Yoffe
Image
Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.
Emily Yoffe
Image
If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
Emily Yoffe
Image
Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
Emily Yoffe
Image
Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
Emily Yoffe
Image
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.
Emily Yoffe
Image
It is a mystery why people think they need to act as their friends' dietitian, nonetheless it's common.
Emily Yoffe