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

Forcing victims of sexual harassment into secret arbitration proceedings is wrong because it means that nobody ever finds out what really happened.

I'm a big believer in always challenging yourself and learning new skills.

Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.

My hope is that when people read my story, it will inspire them to reach for their goals and not give up. The real story is this: if I can do it, you can too.

Self esteem is built from the inside out and that is my inspiring message to all people.

If you Google me, you'll find plenty of "dumb blonde" references - even though I graduated with honors from Stanford and studied at Oxford University. I don't let it bother me.

I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.

The discipline learned from putting in time and effort as a child is a skill and a talent you carry with you for the rest of your life in trying to achieve goals.

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.

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you?

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age.

Without love life will be a flower garden without flowers.

He nothing common did or mean Upon that memorable scene.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

I think it's important that campaigns be aired all the way through, that people aren't voting three weeks before, before debates are held.

Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone.

I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways.