Emily Yoffe Quotes - Page 2

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.

Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

You may think you're married to a woman, but she's really an overgrown child.

Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.

I know this is awkward, but when you laugh after almost everything you say, it ends up undermining you.

I can't imagine anything that would signal more clearly that life goes on and joy can follow tragedy than your having a much wanted child.

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.

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

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.

Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be damaging and it's potentially dangerous to young girls and terrible for "excess" boys. But polyamory is supposed to be a more equal arrangement among agreeing adults.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.

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

I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts of bestiality or child sexual abuse.

I am against lying, but just because someone asks a question does not mean you have to answer it.

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.

I have this wonderful capacity just to walk away from my mistakes and not dwell on them.

Not many people could juggle graduate school and two jobs.

When you're dealing with an in-law violation, I think the first line of defense is for the blood relation to have a serious talk.

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?"