Quotes from Margaret Cho

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

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

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

It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.

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.

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

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

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

My parents are very funny when they have to deal with anything racy or off-color. They usually pretend they don't speak English.

I can't drag myself away from 'Final Cut Pro.' It is a digital video editing system. I am obsessed with it, but I am always away from home, and I can't use it.

Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

I can never tell when something is funny. I just have to do it onstage and find out.

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.

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.

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

Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.

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

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

The first thing you lose on a diet is brain mass.

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.

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.