390 Quotes by Margaret Cho

Korean children get a lot of fuss made over them, I guess because life was tough in the old country, and it was a big deal if you survived. There’s a big party thrown when you are 100 days old, followed by another when you make it to one whole year.

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

You didn’t hear Yello until later in the night in the bondage clubs. Things would start getting crazy and that’s when you’d hear Yello. It was bad.

I’ve always been an ajumma, but when you get older, the culture we were brought up in works in our favor where aging is good, combatting the Hollywood idea that aging is bad. I’m very grateful for that.

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

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

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.

The label of tasteful or tasteless is so often used to silence people and to maintain the status quo. It’s used to shame people for not following the commonly accepted routine, for not aligning themselves with the status quo.

I don’t like pot anymore – I forget why.