Quotes About Miss America

#1. 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.

Hilda Scott

#2. When I feel that something I'm writing is going well, everything in my life is good and the things in my life that aren't good are completely manageable. If it's not going well, Miss America could be standing there in a swimsuit handing me a nobel price and I wouldn't be happy about it

Aaron Sorkin

#3. 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.

Jay Leno

#4. Miss Fiona Castley of Paloma, Three." A brunette with smoldering eyes this time. Maybe my age, but she seemed more . . . experienced. I turned to Mom and May on the couch. "Doesn't she seem awfully - " "Miss America Singer of Carolina, Five.

Kiera Cass

#5. I might even pursue a career in politics. If I do, I will have had great practice dealing with the avalanche of daily criticism from working at Fox News and being a former Miss America. I'm ready for anything!

Gretchen Carlson

#6. As Miss America, my goal is to bring peace to the entire world and then get my own apartment.

Jay Leno

#7. I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio.

Suzi Quatro

#8. This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

Jay Leno

#9. I'm thankful there are children watching at home who can finally relate to a new Miss America.

Nina Davuluri

#10. I nod and wave to my enemies like Miss America, pausing to blow kisses at the worst of them as I work my way across the cafeteria with a plate loaded with horridly healthy food.

Eliza Crewe

#11. I may want to sleep with Miss America, but I have no wish to hear her talk about herself and her family.

W. H. Auden

#12. They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do what it thinks best serves its interests, and if moving out of Atlantic City does, that's what it should do.

Leonard Horn

#13. The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.

Gerald Early

#14. When I looked at the state of women's MMA, what I saw was that it was missing rivalries or anything theatrical about it. Everybody was trying to be Miss America, unwilling to go under any kind of criticism, and taking the safe answers. I thought I needed to do whatever I could to get attention.

Ronda Rousey

#15. There's something about winning Miss America that brings out the snark.

Gretchen Carlson

#16. I know this is going to sound cheesy and like I'm trying to be Miss America, but the most important responsibility a celebrity has is to set an example and be a role model.

Clay Aiken

#17. Now, how can I be anti-woman? I even judged the Miss America pageant.

Rush Limbaugh

#18. I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

Gretchen Carlson

#19. 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.

Gretchen Carlson

#20. The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.

Gloria Steinem

#21. One of my Miss America judges called me a "God-clutcher" way back when because I spoke about my faith being an important part of my life during my interview.

Gretchen Carlson

#22. Those icy bright eyes left her and shifted to his buddy. The frown didn't leave his face. "You look like
hell."
"And you're Miss America.

J.R. Ward

#23. 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.

Jessica Valenti

#24. Miss America Singer of Carolina, Five." I

Kiera Cass

#25. 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

#26. For the pageants, it was my mother who got me involved in Miss America. It really gave me the opportunity to sing all around New Hampshire. And it was great when I was young, but looking back, it was also unbelievably stressful.

Jane Badler

#27. On his homesickness during the Barcelona Olympics -I miss America. I miss crime and murder. I miss Philadelphia. There hasn't been a brutal stabbing or anything here the last 24 hours. I've missed it.

Charles Barkley

#28. Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

Thuy Trang

#29. In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

Gretchen Carlson

#30. I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.

Gabrielle Union

#31. In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

Susan Faludi

#32. We pick politicians by how they look on TV and Miss America on where she stands on the issues. Isn't that a little backwards?

Jay Leno

#33. I'm not going to miss wearing the braces very much.

America Ferrera

#34. Why leave a country when you're on top? Whether it was another communist scare or the even greener pastures in America, no one ever gives me a straight answer. (The only thing anyone can agree on is that they still miss the island.)

Eddie Huang

#35. Miss, you are seventy-two percent noble and don't have a cent. Whether or not you marry the greatest lord in South America - who has an extraordinarily handsome mustache - is entirely up to you.

Voltaire

#36. I live in Beverly Hills and I'm proud of it. The only things I miss are pie and mash shops and football games. I've lived in America longer than I lived in England. When I first got here, it just felt right to me. I like the open space, and the weather's great.

Steve Jones

#37. I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

Elizabeth McGovern

#38. One thing that I miss because we spend a lot of time in America is English food, like cooked breakfast and Sunday dinners.

Louis Tomlinson

#39. I've been wanting to do a book about baseball for the longest time, and nobody will let me do it. It's the one thing from America I really miss.

Bill Bryson

#40. Jeremiah Wright is one of the greatest prophetic preachers that black America has produced. What I find striking is that many white brothers and sisters miss the fact that there would be no black church if the white church wasn't political and racist in refusing to worship with us.

Michael Eric Dyson

#41. I miss Betty madly. I loved her. Whenever people talk about her, I get really nostalgic. There are parts of her still with me; I played her for four years and, of course, the lines get blurred.

America Ferrera

#42. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Mark Twain

#43. Don't you miss the days when America was just MORALLY bankrupt?

Bill Maher

#44. I have a deep and passionate love of America. It is where I have always thought I would be happiest, and although I miss England desperately, I find that my heart definitely has its home over here.

Jane Green

#45. I actually don't miss modeling and I think the reason why is because of America's Next Top Model.

Tyra Banks

#46. Draw a woman who's as powerful as Superman, as sexy as Miss Fury, as scantily clad as Sheena the jungle queen, and as patriotic as Captain America.

Jill Lepore

#47. When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you're African it's different and I don't think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn't matter where you move, you will always be a South African,

Zola Budd