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. – Margaret Cho
The stuff I do and say onstage I can do easily. As a performer, that comes easily. But being social offstage, it’s not easy for me. – Margaret Cho
Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist. – Margaret Cho
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? – Margaret Cho
I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
My history in show business spans over a quarter of a century, and I have seen many people in the industry struggle with coming out, only to find much more success after they finally did. – Margaret Cho
Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor. – Margaret Cho
Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion. – Margaret Cho
I don’t really know what ‘selling out’ is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody’s buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It’s always too dirty. It’s always too filthy. I’m dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
I get up around 7 a.m. That’s very early for a stand-up comic. Then I’ll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work. – Margaret Cho
I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn’t help when my mother, instead of buying me glue for school projects, would tell me to just use rice. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
I think the best way to get over your body issues is to just flaunt your body at every opportunity. – Margaret Cho
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love ’em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They’re tiny and fragile and impressionable – and someone else’s! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people’s babies. It’s too much responsibility. – Margaret Cho
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
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. – Margaret Cho
I’m lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older. – Margaret Cho
