America Quote by Shanna Moakler

I think pageants like Miss Universe give young women a platform to follow the field we want, a platform to voice our opinions and…

— Lara Dutta

Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were…

— Gretchen Carlson

When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the industry.

— Urvashi Rautela

I am so not a pageant girl, but I signed up for the Miss Junior Florida contest because I thought it would be good…

— Amanda Latona

When I participated in the Miss India pageant, it wasn't really carried out at a professional level.

— Pooja Batra

I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America pageant.

— Ronda Rousey

I entered the Miss Nigeria in America pageant - yes, it's a thing that existed. This was when I was getting my masters.

— Yvonne Orji

Pageantry is something I celebrate and support and... the role of these winners is to be an ambassador for everybody, whatever race, color or…

— Shanna Moakler

“beauty contests, she said seriously, they gave out scholarship awards. "It's the biggest scholarship program in the world—they told us that at the Miss…

— Kathleen Gilles Seidel

I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live my life…

— Hannah Brown

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but…

— Gabriela Isler

I wasn't the typical pageant girl - I was a little more nerdy, and they gave me a voice. I created the Queen of…

— Joyce Giraud