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I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

Emily Yoffe

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Emily Yoffe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: October 15
Columnist
Journalist
Division
Personality
Suffering

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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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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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If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.
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Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.
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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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If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!
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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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Children need adult men in their lives.
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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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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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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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Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.
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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 know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.
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