Quotes from Margaret Cho

In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Some people are that - more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too!

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.

I think it is time for all babies to let us know who they want for president.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

The only thing that was sort of Asian [as a role model] was Hello Kitty. I don't want to model myself after Hello Kitty. She has no mouth.

I became a comedian because I didn't want to be bullied anymore. Onstage I was safe.

If you really care about children then why would you want to keep families from adopting them?

I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather.

Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

I will never stop complaining.

We women are constantly at war with our bodies, it is hard to find amnesty for ourselves.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

I just think women are funnier than men.

Comedy is quite a difficult place for queers and for women.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.