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 a pageant girl from Texas, so I like makeup and hairspray. And the smoky eye? I think I was born with… — Eva Longoria Copy Share Image
I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me. — Joyce Giraud 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
I am really happy that Miss World pageant takes keen interest in my projects. — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism. — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Just because my reign had already ended doesn't mean that I have to forget the things I have done as Miss Universe. — Pia Wurtzbach 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
During my first summer in college, I travelled to California for the first time for a beauty pageant. It was solely for… — Fala Chen Copy Share Image
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you find yourself on a pageant stage, there are a lot of unpredictable moments, and I think a lot of that… — Shannon Bream Copy Share Image
And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
The pageant has passed. That day is over. But we linger, loath to think we shall see them no more together -… — Joshua Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Thus unlamented pass the proud away, The gaze of fools and pageant of a day; So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I think there is no set formula and there is no one path that can be taken to the crown as every… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really… — Dia Mirza 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
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
It just never comes across as a quality you want in a president that you're sitting in a room. It's almost as… — Stuart Stevens Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I think the beauty industry is a stepping stone in terms of pageants that will give you a launching pad to be… — Kenya Moore 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
Being a pageant girl taught me to be polished, poised and slap on a smile. — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
I always knew that transgenders are allowed to join Miss Universe and win Miss Universe. So they're welcome to join. — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many. — Rakul Preet Singh Copy Share Image
I've been awarded fur coats and I'm hoping to stop it in our pageant community. — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
When I first came to India from Sri Lanka, people were surprised to see my toned arms. I had come right after… — Jacqueline Fernandez Copy Share Image
When I participated in the Miss India pageant, it wasn't really carried out at a professional level. — Pooja Batra Copy Share Image
Since childhood, I have wanted to become Miss Universe India, and I did. I am so grateful to God for that. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Bitches will take your ass down if you try to publish that. Peace out.” — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Authenticity is extremely important and throughout the pageant Miss Universe looks for that. — Harnaaz Sandhu Copy Share Image
I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too… — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the… — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
No Life can pompless pass away - The lowliest career To the same Pageant wends its way As that exalted here - — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture. — Henry Ossawa Tanner Copy Share Image
Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
