Quotes from Margaret Cho

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

To be a feminist is to be alive.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

People are really terrified of me. I don't know why, I'm very nice, but people are very intimidated by me.

The best tattooists are in San Francisco, and they're kind of like my family now. I'm always excited to come back to San Francisco.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.

To me, marriage is really important and what we build families on. That's why gay marriage is really important.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

When it comes to children, my mom doesn't believe in borders. She loves all children, and that's a good example of mothering the world. I need to do that, but before I can, I need to get over my fear of kids in the first place.

The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.

I grew up a witness to gay politics in its early days. I remember seeing Harvey Milk and been moved by him.

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

What people need to understand is that pussy is the Front Door of Life

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

I just want to love everyone. I don't care if that sounds stupid. I want to love everyone.

If you're going to be wrong, at least be hot.

she's a ho in sheep's clothing, and it's about time she told the truth, the ho truth, and nothing but the truth.