Quotes from Margaret Cho

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

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.

If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.

George Bush isn't Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.

I love heavily tattooed women. I imagine their lives are filled with sensuality and excess, madness and generosity, impulsive natures and fights. They look like they have endured much pain and sadness, yet have the ability to transcend all of it by documenting it on the body

I want Jesus to come back and say 'THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT'" -

I have so much hate that it has turned into love.

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

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

These days, I strive to be a bitch, because not being one sucks. Not being a bitch means not having your voice heard. Not being a bitch means you agree with all the bullshit. Not being a bitch means you don't appreciate all the other bitches who have come before you. Not being a bitch means since Eve ate that apple, we will forever have to pay for her bitchiness with complacence, obedience, acceptance, closed eyes, and opened legs.

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.

Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.

I'm not going to die because I failed as someone else. I'm going to succeed as myself.

Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a bitch is assertive, unapologetic, demanding, intimidating, intelligent, fiercely protective, in control—all very positive attributes. But it's not supposed to be a compliment, because there's that old, stupid double standard: When men are aggressive and dominant, they are admired, but when a woman possesses those same qualities, she is dismissed and called a bitch.

Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

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

Am I gay, am I straight? No, I'm just slutty. So, where's my parade? What about slut pride.

When people think the world of you, be careful with them.

We must know who we are, so we can know what we want, so we don't end up wanting the wrong thing and get it and realize we don't want it, because by then it is too late.

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, "I'm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I'm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I'm beautiful because I say I am. I've earned it, and I'm gonna be it.

Everything is going to be fine in the end, and if it's not fine, it's not the end.

We didn't get along, but he convinced me we did. He made me think that I had a fear of intimacy, when in reality I just hated his goddamn guts.