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Sandra Tsing Loh

American, Writer

Total Quotes : 26

Love Own Via

Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love as less a gently glowing hearth than a set of flaming train tracks you strap yourself onto.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Cloud Fertility Loses

It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Medical Advice Some

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

Potatoes Roast Beef Dad

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

Mixed Own Records

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

Generation Elderly Am

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Used Blended Certain Way

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

Personality How Level

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

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Generation Wanted Anderson

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

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Love Heartbreak Through

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

Play I Think Very

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

Book Poppy Section

You go into the book store, there's the cut-out of Dr. Phil, and then the dreaded women's health section where every book, instead of the menopause book with the fanged Medusa head on the cover that might be more pertinent, you always see a flower and a poppy and a daisy and a stethoscope.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Girl Your Before

Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Never Will Pilates

I will never do Pilates. I walk.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Communicate Which Meant

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

Public School Had

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

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Door New Next

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Love Very Surely

The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

Woman Living New

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

Rain Image Some

There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her umbrella. We want that man. We want the man to be the concierge and the masseur and the travel booker.

- Sandra Tsing Loh

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