American - Writer | February 11, 1962 -
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
GirlYouSameReturnWhereYour
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.
WaterMedicalAdviceFatHelpYou
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.
JanuaryMeHusbandYearKnowKind
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.
LiveMusicCommunityChildrenFun
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.
GoodFatherGood ThingsAliveWill
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.
HusbandSometimesMatchingBeing
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.
FamilyLoveSuccessAmericanBudget
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales.
WomenLionDriveYearCountrySales
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.
FlowerWomenHealthBookYouGo
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.
LoveCoffeeDayEyePushSunday
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.
LoveMarriageYourselfThinkYouUp
I will never do Pilates. I walk.
WalkWillNeverPilates
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Sandra Tsing Loh quotes