Emily Yoffe Quotes

Quotes about:

• 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.

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  42 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Thinking, People, Letters

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me". Ask Me Anything, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Trying, Letters

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me". Ask Me Anything, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Writing, People, Advice

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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  5 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Running, Writing, People

  "Your Infinite Capacity to Amaze Me". Ask Me Anything, www.slate.com. June 9, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Emily Yoffe

  Cheater, Order, Needs

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

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Believe, People, Innovation

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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Thinking, Abuse

  "Picture Perfect" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. January 29, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

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

  Emily Yoffe

  People, Advice, Asks

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.".

  Emily Yoffe

  I Like You, People, Good Conversation

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence'". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 23, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

• I'm not suffering from some division of personality.

  Emily Yoffe

  Personality, Suffering, Division

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Emily Yoffe

  Reading, Sadness, Advice

  Source: www.theguardian.com

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  4 Copy quote

Page 1 of 3

← Prev

1

2

3

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin