“My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny storie...” — Ali Wong Quote

“My dad was a doctor, and he would tell us a lot of nasty, funny stories from the hospital. It was funny to me when I'd go over to other people's houses and they didn't talk about intestines at the table.”

“It's unfair to the hard-core stay-at-home moms to pretend you're able to have an amazing body by chasing around your kids.”

“A lot of comics will say that the thing about specials now is that they're not special anymore because there are so many of them, and they come and go, and they're not really talked about. They just kind of come and go.”

“When you have a child, you think about your own mortality.”

“I have a hoarding problem because my mom is from a third-world country. And she taught me that you can never throw away anything because you never know when a dictator is going to overtake the country and snatch all of your wealth.”

“Breast-feeding was so stressful for me. I kept on clenching and pushing my tongue against the bottom teeth, so they started to move toward an underbite.”

“I lost a sister to pneumonia, when she was 2 years old. She died at home, not in a hospital, where maybe her life could have been saved.”

“I try to make myself do things for other people when I'm feeling down. Like, you can call your local hospital and help out in the pediatric unit.”

“When you're in medicine - especially when you're a resident in a public hospital - you feel like you're doing your part. But not when you're a writer.”

“Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.”

“It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.”

“Go to any hospital, you'll find wards that are run by senior nurses with matrons. The point is do they have the power, do they have the responsibility inside the hospital?”