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.”

“In the end, the real wisdom of menopause may be in questioning how fun or even sane this chore wheel called modern life actually is.”

“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 t...”

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

“The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.”

“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.”

“Work... family - I'm doing it all. But here's the secret I share with so many other nanny- and housekeeper-less mothers I see working the same balance: my house is trashed. It is strewn with...”

“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.”

“When husbands and wives not only co-work but try to co-homemake, as post-feminist and well-intentioned as it is, out goes the clear delineation of spheres, out goes the calm of unquestioned...”