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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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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 have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.
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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.
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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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Children need adult men in their lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.
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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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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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Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.
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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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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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Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
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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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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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Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.
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