Look! I said some cool shit!!
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
Margaret Cho, I’m The One That I Want, 1999When people think the world of you, be careful with them.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s weblog, 03-23-06It’s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else’s story.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s weblog, 04-11-2006Success 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, Margaret Cho’s Weblog, 04-12-2006Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s Weblog, 07-05-04The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s Weblog, 08-24-04I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.
Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho’s weblog, 03-23-06I 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.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-18-04Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04Ugly. 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, weblog, 01-27-04Maybe I wanted to hear it so badly that my ears betrayed my mind in order to secure my heart.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-03-04If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-09-04Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Try 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.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Try 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.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 03-11-04Some people are that – more than a parent, more than a role model, more than anything less than a religion.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 05-04-04I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03
yes you did! my friends and i quote you to this day. u are awesome and we luv you.
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Pretty profound, Margaret. What do you think of this pearl of wisdom.
Two basic rules for living:
1.) Never trust anyone who says, “I know what’s best for you.”
2.) Never become the kind of person who tells others, “I know what’s best for you.”
One of the (many) things you’ve said that resonates with me on a regular is from your book “I’m The One I Want” where you said
“The wars we fight daily hollow us out like canoes.”
Hmmm, come to think of it, I may have gotten that from this blog and not the book because now I can’t find it in the book where I thought it was.
Either way, sometimes the things you say find a way to fill up little empty poked holes in my psyche.
Christ, Margaret, you’re much more profound than I thought. Some of what you said is really moving.
I apologise for underestimating you.
I especially like this one…
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.
Margaret Cho, I’m The One That I Want, 1999
Thanks, Margaret. I loved that film by the way.
And your tats!
And you!
Awesome, love it!
I so appreciate your oeuvre and your blog and your shining beauty of personality and self. (and those gorgeous tattoos!)
I’m adding you to my feed reader! 😛
This one will always be one of my favorites:
https://margaretcho.mystagingwebsite.com/blog/2004/05/18/i-am-not-nice/
“The people in my world who love me the most live in a kind of hell from which they cannot escape, because even though I am who I am, what I am, how horrible I am, my love is overwhelming. This terrible incarceration they choose willingly, and their suffering is compensated many times over.”
Amen sister.
“If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love’s reach.”
This one is so true for you, Margaret. I live in a rural town in Ohio and I have never had anyone speak to me the way you have over the past 15 years. I have remained loyal to you and feel that you are the person who knows me and my heart the best out of anyone I know ~ even though we have never met (although I always come see you live~duh~ and have every single thing you’ve ever done on DVD, CD and print). So yes ~ I bet you had no idea your sentiment could touch so deeply. I am deeply indebted to you for all that I am and all that I’ve survived the past several years, and it will be your words which carry me into the future undoubtedly. I love you always. xoMara