Winning a beauty pageant and the Miss India title was always a dream. — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be a model for the rest of my life, I want to be a successful businesswoman. I want… — Agbani Darego Copy Share Image
We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Its high school not a beauty pageant. Stop worrying bout wat you're goin to look like n front of the boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that. — Harnaaz Sandhu Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected. — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act… — Rodney Crowell Copy Share Image
Somewhere a woman is praying her toddler wins a beauty pageant. I say this because sometimes people wonder why God lets tornadoes… — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
I would tell her to believe in herself because it is not only physical beauty that is important but also inner beauty.… — Ruffa Guttierez Copy Share Image
This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and… — Hadley Freeman Copy Share Image
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an… — Jude Law Copy Share Image
I know that I've got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up, but I'm happy with myself.… — Clay Aiken Copy Share Image
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those.… — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch… — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“She was a beauty queen!'' ''Holy shit.'' Harrison dissolved into a fit of laughter. ''No way is Redding pulling that one off.… — Jana Deleon Copy Share Image
I never went in thinking, "You're an African-American woman, so you're never going to win." I was just in career doing beauty… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
I felt like I was not a cute kid, and I remember seeing people transform. It was actually when my sister was… — Huda Kattan Copy Share Image
If you've ever noticed, beauty pageants are a lot like county fairs. The farmers show the cows the same way. They walk… — Sherry Argov Copy Share Image
There are three things pageant women do. There's the Vaseline thing, which I didn't do. There's duct-taping your boobs, which I never… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope… — Rima Fakih Copy Share Image
“Certain things are expected of you when you’re a demon. Take the grotesque bodies, for example. Powerful, lethal, but definitely not beauty… — Samantha Blake Copy Share Image
“Over the front altar wall, we see the spandrel of Esther and Haman. This story is found in both Hebrew and Christian… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
It was a gloomy day, Young boy walking on a narrow street. Felt someone following him, So all he heard was his… — Vladimir Cius Copy Share Image
“Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“In my mind, she was Lebkuchen Spice—ironic, Germanic, sexy, and off beat. And, mein Gott, the girl could bake a damn fine… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Kay Cannon was a woman I’d known from the Chicago improv world. A beautiful, strong midwestern gal who had played lots of… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“A huge cloud of dust is not a beautiful thing to look at. Very few painters have done portraits of huge clouds… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
