Margaret Cho

“Babies got it going on!”

“To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!”

“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.”

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

“I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'”

“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.”

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

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

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

“Grow up and let anyone try to contend with the adult you.”

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

“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 love singing and that's kind of my new thing.”

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

“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.”

“You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.”

“In the early '90s, there was such a limited idea of what you could see on TV.”

“I'm writing a record of comedy songs. I'm doing all these collaborations with artists. I bring them lyrics and they write the music to it.”

“Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.”

“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.”