A Quote by Yvonne Orji

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

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America Entered Existed Getting Masters Miss Nigeria Pageant Thing Yes

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Yvonne Orji
Nigerian - Actress
Born: December 2, 1983

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

Shanna Moakler

Yes, my pageant career was incredibly short. I started at 19 and was done at 21. I started by competing for Miss California Teen, which I wound up winning, and I literally just entered the contest on a whim!

Meagan Tandy

I was studying communications and acting, and I decided over the summer that I wanted to work on my acting skills and perform in a pageant. I didn't have any other way of practicing, so I entered the Miss Rhode Island pageant. I ended up wearing a dress that was a $20 rental. It was too short, and there was a hole in the back of it.

Olivia Culpo

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

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

Zooey Deschanel

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

Rush Limbaugh

Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding.

Chris Harrison

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

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

Gloria Steinem

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.

Shannon Bream

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism. This conjunction fosters events that go beyond the wildest dream of satire- if satire existed in America anymore; perhaps the reason for its weakness is that reality has superseded it.

Robert Hughes

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

I made history being crowned the second black woman to win Miss U.S.A. and I was fifth place in The Miss Universe pageant.

Kenya Moore

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

One thing led to another and I was selected from Hyderabad for the Miss India pageant. I remember my mother being really surprised that I wanted to take part!