Quotes from Margaret Cho

Strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another

Many of my contemporaries are atheists, and for good reasons. God isn't really the problem. Some of His followers are big assholes

If you are generous with your heart, you have no idea of the depth & breadth of love's reach.

I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Toxic shock was ominous because they never really said how you got it, or why, or what happened when you did get it. It just struck you dead in the cunt.

I don't know if I'm a bottom because it turns me on, or if I'm a bottom because I'm lazy.

There's this creepy connection between leather sex, Star Trek, and the Renaissance Fair.

The saying It's not over 'til the fat lady sings is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn for the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh coincides directly with our ability to fight. If we can make fun of it, we can transcend it.

I will stop living life for a future happiness that does not and may never exist. I will live for now and stop wasting my time. Ever moment I live can be as beautiful as a fantasy. Every second of life is precious. I vow to stop wasting my time on these dreams that turn my life into a nightmare. I vow to live, to be mindful, to pay attention to life and hold it hard to my heart. Every beat another second going by.

Schadenfreude, delighting in the misfortune of others. I often wonder why there is no equivalent term in English. There should be, considering it's a great American pastime.

By allowing and legitimizing different types of families, we make them relevant, attainable and honorable, thereby strengthening the moral fabric of the nation and making the ideal American family setting available to all who wish to be a part of one.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

My life is anything but typical.

Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis, Mike Davis at Everlasting Tattoo.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

People are so sensitive about race that they can't hear someone speaking about their life in a very true way, or doing satire or political parody.

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.