Sandra Tsing Loh

Life at the top may be privileged, but it is not simple.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

All autobiography is fiction.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Certainly, being a 'perfect' mother is unachievable.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Los Angeles is the nation's cultural scapegoat.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I will never do Pilates. I walk.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I am a longtime, rabid fan of Jonathan Kozol.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

living in Los Angeles was like being an extra in a movie that was starring other people entirely.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

“When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.”

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Panic is efficient. Panic is effective. Panic is the way I get things done! Panic attacks are my booster rockets!

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our relationships - including, unavoidably,…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

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

While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a…

— 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…

— 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…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and…

— 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…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski.

— 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…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

Oddly, in this age of the blinding white Oprah pantsuit, when everything is illuminated, it seems a Victorian lace curtain still hangs…

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

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

My sister is not my mother, but more than anyone else, she fills that role for me now - like it or…

— Sandra Tsing Loh