“The reigning Miss Canada has been arrested for punching out another woman in a bar fight.Quite frankly, I think it's refreshing to finally find one beauty pageant winner who is against world peace.” ThinkingWorldHas BeensFightingMissingBarsWinnerComedianCanadaArrestedRefreshingPageantAnother WomanPunchingBeauty Pageant Author:Jay Leno
“You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She can sit on her hair. A lover could climb that hair like a gym rope. It's fairy-tale hair, Rapunzel hair. We saw her practicing for the pageant in the hotel ballroom with two wild pigs, her hair braided into two lassoes.” IfsWantTwoSawsMissingHairLoversMarriedTalesFairyClimbsHotelGymSpellsFairy TalePigsRopeBallroomArkansasPageantRapunzel Book:Stranger Things Happen Source: Stranger Things Happen
“At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.” AmericaFeminismMediaMissingFilledShoesFeministMythRadicalBurningSpiteMapsSixtyTrashDemonstrationRadical FeminismBrasPageantSpitefulGirdlesMiss AmericaTrash Cans Author:Hilda Scott
“Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some bras into a garbage can, and somehow that became this longstanding idea of feminists as bra-burners.” MadeIdeasAmericaHappenedMediaMissingCoupleFeministBurningGarbageBrasPageantGarbage CansMiss America Author:Jessica Valenti
“I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.” ThinkingKindAmericaGirlMissingOlympianPageantBad GirlMiss America Author:Ronda Rousey
“Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.” IfsUniverseMissingTrumpInterferePresidencyPageant Author:David Letterman
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenTwoRealAgeWantedAmericaYoungMotherChallengesBehindsWatchesStruggleFiveMissingTelevisionTvsBalanceSceneSixTwentiesJournalistFive YearsConcertsYoung WomenTwenty FiveBehind The ScenesWatch MePageantViolinistReal MeMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“The first time I was asked whether women can "have it all" was at the Miss America pageant. I said no. I didn't mean that women shouldn't fully pursue their dreams, only that we need to be honest with ourselves.” NeedsFirstsMeanSaidDreamAmericaHonestMissingFirst TimePursueBeing HonestPageantMiss America Author:Gretchen Carlson
“They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.” IfsWayAmericaCasesMissingPicksProgramContestsScholarshipJeopardyPageantContestantsMiss AmericaBeauty Contest Author:Jay Leno
“It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you`re sitting in a room. It`s almost as if they woke up and realized, You know, we`re running against a former secretary of state. Our guy used to do the Miss Universe pageant around the world. Maybe we should try to heavy this up.” IfsKnowsWorldWantShouldTryingStatesRunningUsedGuyUniversePresidentRoomsQualityMissingSittingHeavyAround The WorldFormerSecretaryPageant Author:Stuart Stevens
“Alicia Machado is the former Miss Universe that gained a lot of weight and Donald Trump made mention of the fact I guess to her when he owned the pageant. And Hillary Clinton used her to try to illustrate that Trump hates women and is not nice to women and all that.” TryingMadeFactsUsedHateUniverseNiceMissingTrumpWeightClintonFormerPageant Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope everyone can look beyond the bikini or beyond the whole beauty pageant stereotype of Miss USA, and realize that what I'm doing is more significant than just that. It represents the United States as a country of opportunity, where you can do anything you want to, and ethnicity and religion cannot stop you.” DifferentCountryOpportunityRealizingMissingBlessedSignificantStereotypeBeing BlessedPageant Author:Rima Fakih