When I think of Chinese parents, I think of people who weep upon hearing Beethoven, but who can't necessarily bring that joy… — Sandra Tsing Loh I think Copy Share Image
I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart… — Sandra Tsing Loh Afternoons Copy Share Image
I think that in L.A., one thing that nobody will ever talk about is, for instance, how just one in five kids… — Sandra Tsing Loh City Copy Share Image
Very, very few adults possess so much charm that they can long be supported by another adult based on that attribute alone. — Sandra Tsing Loh Adult Copy Share Image
The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss… — Sandra Tsing Loh Alive Copy Share Image
In twenty-first-century America, our stories have become one and the same: we work to consume, we live to consume, we are what… — Sandra Tsing Loh America Copy Share Image
Having blown up my own long-term marriage via an extramarital affair, followed by a traumatic divorce, I tend to think of love… — Sandra Tsing Loh Fitness Copy Share Image
I think of the friends of mine who were blissfully single in their 20s and 30s. Still single in their 40s and… — Sandra Tsing Loh Friends Copy Share Image
My guitarist husband, Mike, and writer me are the old-fashioned kind of bohemians. Not 'fro-haired hipsters gyrating in iPod ads, but the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Bohemians Copy Share Image
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… — Sandra Tsing Loh Advice Copy Share Image
here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Believe Copy Share Image
Nowadays, it is possible to perform various forms of Low-Impact listening via the telephone. The advent of technological advances such as computer… — Sandra Tsing Loh Advent Copy Share Image
Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family… — Sandra Tsing Loh Agribusiness Copy Share Image
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… — Sandra Tsing Loh Believe Copy Share Image
While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a… — Sandra Tsing Loh Building Copy Share Image
I think live music is really, really important. And I think it's very important to do together. It's much more fun to… — Sandra Tsing Loh Amazing Copy Share Image
I don't know how it's going for my sisters, but as my 40s and Verizon bills and mortgage payments roll on, I… — Sandra Tsing Loh 1950s Copy Share Image
Things need shaking up when American women feel endangered even as Yosemite bears lumber around belching, their eyes glazed with surfeit, their… — Sandra Tsing Loh American Copy Share Image
The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Feminism Copy Share Image
Almost 50 years old now, some 30 years after graduation, I look at my Caltech classmates and conclude that math whizzes do… — Sandra Tsing Loh Classmates Copy Share Image
A deep river of must-have school mania runs through the chattering classes. There is, of course, the parental adrenaline rush at suburban… — Sandra Tsing Loh Adrenaline rush Copy Share Image
I am shamed to realize that in my marriage, my daughters never heard their father and me fight, which also meant, perhaps,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Children Copy Share Image
We women make the lion's share of household purchases in this country. We ourselves drive billions of dollars a year in sales. — Sandra Tsing Loh Country Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, we've seen a phenomenon where a school will go from one that no one will go to, to within… — Sandra Tsing Loh Becoming Copy Share Image
The terror of the ordinary is what keeps many affluent, educated parents and their kids out of the merely 'decent' schools, the… — Sandra Tsing Loh Fine Copy Share Image
Many men today can cook, or at least order takeout, and know where and how to hire domestic help, perhaps with refreshing… — Sandra Tsing Loh Clarity Copy Share Image
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 Girl Copy Share Image
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 Best Copy Share Image
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 Children Copy Share Image
There's an image that some of us have of Jackie Onassis, stepping out in the rain, and Maurice Tempelsman is holding her… — Sandra Tsing Loh Image Copy Share Image
I am stricken with the peculiar curse of being a 21st-century woman who makes more than the man she's living with -… — Sandra Tsing Loh I am Copy Share Image
I find I'm the sort of harried working mother who has difficulty scheduling in a bit of rest amid the Ptolemaically complicated… — Sandra Tsing Loh Complicated Copy Share Image
We all fantasize about work that uses our creativity, is self-directed, happens during the hours we choose, and occurs in an attractively… — Sandra Tsing Loh Choose Copy Share Image
I eye 'Modern Love' warily between that second and third cup of coffee on Sunday mornings, calculating how much of a push… — Sandra Tsing Loh Coffee Copy Share Image
The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story… — Sandra Tsing Loh American Copy Share Image
My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or… — Sandra Tsing Loh More Copy Share Image
Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where… — Sandra Tsing Loh Heart Copy Share Image
My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit… — Sandra Tsing Loh Beautiful Copy Share Image
In the end, we all want a wife. But the home has become increasingly invaded by the ethos of work, work, work,… — Sandra Tsing Loh End Copy Share Image
Typically, middle-class educated parents' search for their children's schools takes on the feel, if not of teen girls trying on different outfits,… — Sandra Tsing Loh Children Copy Share Image
