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Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

The literature of menopause is the saddest, the most awful, and the most medical of all genres. You’re sleepless, you’re anxious, you’re fat, you’re depressed – and the advice is always the same: take more walks, eat some kale, and drink lots of water. It didn’t help.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she’s living with – first with a husband for 13 years and now with a new partner.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Just because marriage didn’t work for us doesn’t mean we don’t believe in the institution. Just because our own marital track records are mixed doesn’t mean our hearts don’t lift at the sight of our daughters’ Tiffany-blue wedding invitations.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I think live music is really, really important. And I think it’s very important to do together. It’s much more fun to play to music together than the one person listening to their lone iPod Shuffle. I think it’s an amazing way to build community and have children do things that are funded that’s not a videogame.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps, that we didn’t truly communicate.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and 50s, they seem to be contracting a bit.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I’m a journalist, so my friends are journalists: magazines, newspapers, even public radio. Nobody had their kids in public school.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

With more women in power, the world would be better off.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work, with twin sets of external clocks imposed on a household’s natural rhythms.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Some of us stay married because we’re in competition with our divorcing 1960s and 1970s parents, who made such a hash of it. What looks appealing to us now, in an increasingly frenetic, digital world, is the 1950s marriage.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

In the ‘Mad Men’ era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was – apparently – content.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships – including, unavoidably, our relationships with men.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

In our 20s, women in my generation, we all wanted to be Laurie Anderson.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now – like it or not. And indeed, all women I know play that role for somebody – like it or not.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

While having two biological parents at home is, the statistics tell us, best for children, a single-parent household is almost as good.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do not take over the world.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I really don’t think our school system is an evil borg force. It’s sort of like the government. It’s not even efficient enough to be a borg of total evil, even if it wanted to be.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that’s blended a certain way from Costa Rica.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Certainly, being a ‘perfect’ mother is unachievable.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

In 1900, the average life expectancy of a US citizen was 48, so most menopausal women were dead, which is not a great place to be.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I don’t know how it’s going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I seem to have an ever more recurring 1950s housewife fantasy.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned authority, and of course, out goes the gratitude.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I eye ‘Modern Love’ warily between that second and third cup of coffee on Sunday mornings, calculating how much of a push I need to get through the day’s unhurriedly earnest saga of heartbreak and recovery.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not ‘fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the sort who, starting January 1 of every year, literally don’t know where their next dime is coming from.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids in L.A. County is white, so when you’re looking out there, it’s a very brown city.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

Struggling with my finances, nudging toward 50, I sometimes daydream about being happily married to a matching frugaholic husband in a matching Christmas-red tracksuit with matching walkie-talkies as we troll Ralphs, excitedly comparing triple coupons.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

When I think of Chinese parents, I think of people who weep upon hearing Beethoven, but who can’t necessarily bring that joy to others.

– Sandra Tsing Loh

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