Top 180 Margaret Cho Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.”

— Margaret Cho

52. “It’s hard to find peace with your thighs, but when they chafe, try to be grateful for them. Your thighs let you run and get you where you want to go. I have not just thigh peace but thigh happiness, and it begins with thigh gratitude.”

— Margaret Cho

53. “I don’t have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It’s weird not to be able to decide. I don’t know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don’t think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.”

— Margaret Cho

54. “I’ve always wanted to have tattoos. I grew up around people who were very tattooed. It’s a self-expression thing; it’s also helped me claim my body as my own. So I think it’s really positive. It’s really joyful.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

56. “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

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

— Margaret Cho

58. “I have a song about how much I hate emojis and the lazy thinking of people who use them. I wish that more people had respect for the English language.”

— Margaret Cho

59. “I’m super-obsessed with ‘Intervention.’ I wrote a song about it.”

— Margaret Cho

60. “Success is meaningless if you can’t sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a ‘friendship.’”

— Margaret Cho

61. “Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you’d never know it. Isn’t that strange?”

— Margaret Cho

62. “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.”

— Margaret Cho

63. “Silence equals nonexistence. If I don’t raise my voice, it’s like I never existed.”

— Margaret Cho

64. “I love Wilco’s “I’m the Man Who Loves You.” Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.”

— Margaret Cho

65. “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

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

— Margaret Cho

67. “George Bush isn’t Hitler. He could be if he applied himself.”

— Margaret Cho

68. “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

69. “I’m a survivor. But I’m also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you’ve been through it, you lived through it and that’s wonderful – but a victim is what I was. “Survivor” is the more healing way to look at it.”

— Margaret Cho

70. “I was lucky. I always had really great friends in my personal life, people always just knew who I was. It wasn’t until I was in show business where that sort of changed or shifted at first. I have always had a great support network. I have had a lot of really wonderful, close friends.”

— Margaret Cho

71. “Now on Facebook I have all these ‘friends’ who used to bully me, and they’re like, ‘We’re so proud! We love you!’ They come to shows and want to take a picture, and they’re like, ‘Don’t you remember us?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m sorry, I don’t.’ And I feel bad, but I feel good.”

— Margaret Cho

72. “Monogamy is so weird. Like when you know their name and stuff.”

— Margaret Cho

73. “Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in ‘Cleopatra.’ She has the same bone structure. I’m kind of obsessed with ‘Jersey Shore.’ People don’t give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.”

— Margaret Cho

74. “I don’t think I’m gay. I don’t think I’m straight. I think I’m just slutty. Where’s my parade?”

— Margaret Cho

75. “Sexual fulfillment goals, to make them happen, you have to work on them as a project. I don’t think it’s a bad thing.”

— Margaret Cho

76. “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

77. “It’s always considered bad taste to comment on a tragedy right when it’s happening, but I love when something is considered too soon to talk about because then you can blast past that social censorship to get into something real.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

79. “I voice my opinions on social media and I have people threatening me with violence. It is troubling but I can fight back, which is good.”

— Margaret Cho

80. “My attitude toward peace does not depend on which war we are discussing. I think that words should do the work of bombs.”

— Margaret Cho

81. “I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.”

— Margaret Cho

82. “I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you’re doing arms and cardio!”

— Margaret Cho

83. “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.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

85. “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

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

— Margaret Cho

87. “The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.”

— Margaret Cho

88. “If you say you’re not a feminist, you’re almost denying your own existence.”

— Margaret Cho

89. “Im not a mom, but I think the word mother is about wisdom.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

91. “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.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

93. “For me to be ten pounds thinner is a full-time job, and I am handing in my notice and walking out the door!!”

— Margaret Cho

94. “Why do Republicans hate gay marriage so much? They certainly don’t hate gay prostitutes.”

— Margaret Cho

95. “Homophobia is a tough one. In some places it’s actually very OK to be homophobic. Comedy clubs in general are very unsafe spaces for LGBT, for women, for Asian people. So my goal in comedy has sort of been to make this a safe space for people who were like me.”

— Margaret Cho

96. “I don’t like to criticize music and I had a really hard time picking out the song I hate for this because I end up seeing and working with musicians all the time.”

— Margaret Cho

97. “I was about 17 or 18 and there were a lot of clubs and dancing. It was the beginning of rave culture and a lot of ecstasy. Because of all the drugs, there are certain songs that make me feel high.”

— Margaret Cho

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

— Margaret Cho

99. “My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.”

— Margaret Cho

100. “If I’m talking to a guy who’s straight and cute and single, I’m like ‘are you a unicorn?’”

— Margaret Cho