Muppets star Miss Piggy was presented with her prize last week by prominent women's rights activist Gloria Steinem.

Repeating Steinem's signature line that "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle", Ms P proceeded to lovingly tease a squirming Kermit before showing a retrospective of her career.

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Responding to critics who branded it a case of pearls before swine due to the fact that she's not a "real" person, she laughed "What, am I just a figment of everyone's imagination?"

She closed her speech with the rousing words: "If you believe in yourself, fooling everyone else is easy."

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