Sandra Tsing Loh Quotes

Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and... I didn't know emotionally how I would feel.

I don't like any of it. I'm sick and tired of menopause.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes

The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

Women know when they've got the menopause but men don't quite know. They know it afterwards.

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.

I did many interviews, and went out and talked to many people and went to rallies. It was the same thing with menopause. I traveled around the country on talk shows and talking to women about.

I will not tolerate your menopausic outbursts.

I'm what is known as perimenopausal. "Peri", some of you may know, is a Latin prefix meaning 'SHUT YOUR FLIPPIN' PIE HOLE'.

Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

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.

One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.

The worst part about pregnancy would definitely have to be my nausea. I don't know why it's just called morning sickness because morning sickness never just happened in the morning for me and it's not happening just in the morning for my sister.

The early stage of pregnancy for me is quite hard to hide.

I saw my mother go through surgical menopause, and at 35, I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for the complications, like bone loss as a result of early menopause, that my mother had.

When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.

What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

Menopause. A pause while you reconsider men.

Menopause, perimenopause, childbirth and breast-feeding can all cause a woman's sex drive to shut down.

The menopause is probably the least glamorous topic imaginable; and this is interesting, because it is one of the very few topics to which cling some shreds and remnants of taboo. A serious mention of menopause is usually met with uneasy silence; a sneering reference to it is usually met with relieved sniggers. Both the silence and the sniggering are pretty sure indications of taboo.

When you get a typical injury, you're given a time frame; you're gradually working towards getting back. With concussions, there is not generally a time frame or a span where you're feeling better. You feel like you're getting better, and it can be one day and you're back to where you started.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.

There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!