Emily Yoffe Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The human heart is a mysterious and sometimes dark place.

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.

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

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

I've never gotten a letter where I thought I knew the person. But I have heard from people who think they know the letter writer.

I try to direct people in distress to the right resources, where they can get comprehensive help. I've heard from many people that simply putting down in a letter what is going on in their lives is therapeutic in and of itself.

I do feel haunted by some of the letters and the suffering people have endured. But I keep in mind that the people who write to me know that I am a journalist and an on-line advice columnist, not a social service professional.

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

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

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.

Once an affair is over, the cheaters need to agree not to see each other anymore in order to reestablish trust with their spouses.

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.

If you think a caregiver has an active substance abuse problem, that person should never be entrusted with your child.

I have people close to me who ask my advice just as I ask theirs.

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.".

I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

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.

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.