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.
In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.
I kinda miss having Miss USA around.
Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding.
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!
After I won Miss America, I called my dad, who had four kids in college, to say he no longer had to pay for Stanford.
I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.
During the time I was Miss America, I had come to New York City because I had decided I wanted to try to get into television.
Miss America paid for my junior and senior years in college.
There's something about winning Miss America that brings out the snark.
Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent.
I joke that I reached the bimbo trifecta when I came to Fox News! In being a former Miss America, being blonde and then Fox.
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.
That year I went to Miss America, that was the first year I had competed in an adult pageant, if you could call it that. So it was zero to 60.
White Southerners created an entire cosmetics industry equating beauty with whiteness and trained a string of winning Miss Americas who embodied their racial ideal in a national representative.
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.
I haven't watched Miss America since I was in middle school, and I was incredulous even then.
