Quotes By Margaret Cho

The newest victims of the nation's foreclosure crisis are pets, which is extremely distressing to me.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I will never stop complaining.

I punished myself and avoided my reflection in mirrors and any windows. I would see myself reflected back, and I would look away, trying to pretend I didn't exist, because I hated myself so much.

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

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

I'm lucky that I have good genetics. Like you said, it just gets better as I get older.

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

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 mean, what's great about touring is that's what you do. You're in a constant state of motion and then you stop to do a show and you move onto the next city. All you have to do is do the show. That's the only responsibility that you have.

I think reality television is such a special talent.

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.

If you say you're not a feminist, you're almost denying your own existence.

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

The power of visibility can never be underestimated.

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.

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.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

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

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

I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.

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 really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

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

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