80 Quotes by Sandra Tsing Loh

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.

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

I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated interlocking gears of professional and personal life.

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.

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

I agree that mommy wars are not good for any mothers: that such wars are time and effort wasted.

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

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

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