Emily Yoffe Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

People who have undergone a loss get a fair amount of leeway on their behavior.