Emily Yoffe Quotes

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• Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

  Emily Yoffe

  Accomplishment, Addresses, Voters

  "Slate: The Sarah Palin Story". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. September 4, 2008.

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• Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.

  Emily Yoffe

  Mother, Law, Common

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself.

  Emily Yoffe

  Steps, Milestone, About Yourself

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.

  Emily Yoffe

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "Should I Reconcile With My Terrible Father?" by Emily Yoffe and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. May 15, 2015.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Hurt, Children, War

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I'm not a big advocate of living together before marriage. It can be the right thing, but it can also leave two people stuck together who haven't figured out what they really want out of the relationship.

  Emily Yoffe

  Two, People, Together

  Source: www.slate.com

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• I hate a messy kitchen and my more casual husband has come to recognize it's more pleasant for him to clean up after himself rather than deal with me hating a messy kitchen.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Hate, Kitchen

  "Inside Job". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. December 2, 2014.

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• The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

  Emily Yoffe

  Heart, Dark, Mysterious

  "I Won't Be Home for Christmas". Live chat, www.slate.com. September 8, 2015.

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• Accept the fact that life presents us with opportunities to find more than one "one", and that you have learned a mighty life lesson when the next one comes along.

  Emily Yoffe

  Life Lesson, Opportunity, Lessons

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I agree that not responding, and blocking his email, is the way to deal with the man you hope falls silent again.

  Emily Yoffe

  Block, Fall, Men

  "Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence'". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 12, 2011.

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• If you didn't want to be written about, you shouldn't have been born to a writer!

  Emily Yoffe

  Want, Born, Has Beens

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Political, Comfort, Workplace

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You can't get a guarantee from everyone who appears in personal photographs that they will forever remain warm presences in one's life or sweet memories.

  Emily Yoffe

  Sweet, Memories, Forever

  "Picture Perfect". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Past, Self, People

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Anyone who marries gets no guarantee that their partner, no matter what they vow, will always keep that promise.

  Emily Yoffe

  Guarantees That, Promise, Matter

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Love Is, Giving, Car

  Source: www.slate.com

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• 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

  Past, People, Missing

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• Sure, people talk about all kinds of stuff at the office, but surely everyone has better things to do than sound like they're auditioning for Fox News.

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Office, Kind

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Children need adult men in their lives.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Men, Adults

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Fall, People, Drunk

  "Short Haul". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. August 17, 2015.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

  "Short Haul". "Dear Prudence" with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. August 17, 2015.

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Crazy, People, Perspective

  Source: www.slate.com

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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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Book, Personality, Different

  "Lots of Personality". Online chat, www.slate.com. February 21, 2008.

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• I understand polyamory is different from polygamy, and doesn't share the latter's rigid and noxious views that men run the show and are the only ones allowed multiple partners.

  Emily Yoffe

  Running, Men, Views

  "Advice from Slate's 'Dear Prudence'". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Eating Disorder

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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