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WATCH: Miss Piggy's Feminist Award Acceptance Speech Will Make You Smile

WATCH: Miss Piggy's Feminist Award Acceptance Speech Will Make You Smile

WATCH: Miss Piggy's Feminist Award Acceptance Speech Will Make You Smile

Our favourite porcine puppet is honoured by the Sackler Center for Feminist Art

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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