Margaret Cho: Quotes about thinking

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

Margaret Cho

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Life , Feeling , Thinking

“Don't you think the soldiers look like they came straight from high school yearbooks, too young to be over in Iraq, fighting for no reason?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

School , Thinking , Fight

“The way some of these politicians talk about homosexuality is very insulting. They treat it like it's a disease, like being gay is contagious. Being gay is not contagious. And if you think that it is, YOU'RE GAY.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Assassin CD

Disease , Way , Thinking

“I was on a plane, and the steward was coming down the aisle. "Asian chicken salad… Asian chicken salad… Asian chicken salad…" And he gets to me and he's like, "… chicken salad!" What does he think I'm gonna do? "Dis is not de salad of my people! In my homeland, dey use mandarin orange slices… and crispy wonton crunches!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

People , Thinking

“When we never see who we are, never hear what we think about things, what we are doing as a group or what we are doing individually, then it is as if we are never there in the first place. Silence = Nonexistence.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

Thinking , Silence

“A Korean reporter once asked me, "Do you think your Korean parents are ashamed because you talk about what you talk about on stage?" I said, "I don't think they're ashamed because they're Korean. I think any parents would be ashamed."”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Thinking , Parent

“I can't even look at those "women's magazines" anyway. I love fashion, but I look at the pictures of the skinny models, and they're wearing clothes I can't even fit on my fingers. And I look at that and I think, if that is what a woman is supposed to look like, then I must not be one.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour

Love , Women , Fashion , Thinking

“I think it's very important to feel beautiful. I think it's very political to feel beautiful, especially if you're Queer, because if you're Queer you have to take on the world every single day of your life, so you have to feel beautiful to survive.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Beautiful Tour

Life , World , Beauty , Feeling

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

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, WAR

War , Peace , Thinking , Dependency

“And I got so drunk, I got so drunk that I actually woke up thinking, "Should I get up and pee, or just pee in the bed?" Actually weighing the pros and the cons. "Well, it'll be warm for a minute… it's a big bed, I'll just roll over… I'll just blame it on that guy!"”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD

Guy , Thinking

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. It is vital to mourn the victims of this government, but not at the expense of losing our sense of humor. Our ability to laugh directly coincides with our ability to fight. If we make fun of it, we can transcend it.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM

Life , Feeling , Thinking , Sense

“I want to scream and shout, "Stop! We are all human beings!"…but I don't think anybody will hear it.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

Thinking

“I am not so much angry as trying to find my own voice in the world, to find enough courage to speak up in the first place, then to go forth and use it, which both are monumental tasks and require more confidence than you'd think.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, SPEAKING UP

World , Confidence , Courage , Thinking

“I think that gay people should have the right to get married by Elvis like everybody else.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, Revolution Tour

People , Thinking

“I have never had any desire to play a maid, a liquor store owner kicking a black person out of my store, a rude and harried waitress, a worldly-wise acupuncturist, an early-rising, loose black cotton pants wearing elderly woman practicing tai chi in the park, a manicurist, a prostitute, a student in an English as a Second Language course, a purveyor of exotic mushrooms and ginseng, an exchange student, a newscaster covering gang warfare in Chinatown, a woman drowning my newborn baby in a bowl, a daughter crying with my mom over our constant battle between East and West yet finally coming together over a particularly intense game of mahjong…a young girl being raped and killed by GIs in the Killing Fields, a woman balancing a basket of any kind on my head…committing suicide because my white lover did not come back to Japan after the war, or having him come back for me and fooling him successfully for years and years thinking I am a woman when really I'm a dude, as if my race castrates me so much this deception is completely feasible…”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, PIGEONHOLING PEOPLE

War , Fools , Girl , Game

“I slept with a woman on the ship, and afterwards I was thinking, "Am I gaaaay? Am I straaaaight?" And then I realized: I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Thinking

“If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FEMINISM

Thinking

“[quoting her producer] "The network is concerned. They're concerned about the fullness of your face. They think you're really overweight and you're going to have to do something about it." I didn't know what to say to that. I always thought I was decent looking; I had no idea that I was a giant face taking over America! HERE COMES THE FACE!!”

Margaret Cho

From Her Tours and CDs, I'm The One That I Want Tour

Quotes , Idea , Thinking

“What people need to understand is pussy is the Front Door to Life. Do you get that? Nobody ever thinks about it like that in the dusty ancient cabinet of old white men that think they know everything.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, FEMINISM

Understanding , People , Thinking , Life

“All I ask for is a chance to have the same kind of forum, the right to speak, the same credibility as thee wrong-ass ignant fools. But the producers of these types of shows think tht I will only talk about tai chi, where to get the best sushi on the West Side, how to feng-shui your office…the fact that the media at large look at my race before they hear my voice = fucked up shit.”

Margaret Cho

From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, INVISIBILITY

Thinking , Fools , Chance