Tina Fey Covers Vogue; Continues Awesome Streak

The March magazine covers are out, and the Internet is abuzz with talk of Vogue's cover girl, Tina Fey. She's not the mag's typical choice; Anna Wintour's cover girls tend to err on the skinny, blond starlet end of the spectrum — and what a refreshing change Ms. Fey is.

Even though Vogue unfortunately airbrushed Fey a bit into unrecognizable territory onto the cover (where is her famous scar?) and the cover line is a bit too generic fashion-y ("An Education: Tina Fey, Learning to Dress Like a Star"), the interview portrays the actress, writer, comedian, and all-around awesome - for lack of a better word - person we all want to read about. Even the famed Anna Wintour fawns over her cover girl in her editor's letter, saying: "there is nothing ordinary about her brilliance, her perceptiveness, or her beauty."

Here's a round-up of my favorite inspiring quotes from Tina Fey's March 2010 Vogue interview:

On politics: "The partisan nature of politics continues to appall me. I'm almost paralyzed by my inability to see things in black-and-white... I felt uncomfortable to be in that discussion. The weird thing is, when Darrell Hammond or Will Ferrell or Dana Carvey did an impersonation of a president, no one assumed it was personal, but because Sarah Palin and I are both women and people think women are meaner to each other, everyone assumed it was personal."

On body image: "People will say, 'Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they're giving girls a negative message' - but we're also the fattest country in the world, so it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating. Maybe it just starts a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so...Chicken McNuggets it is! ... Also, my dad is an artist - a painter by hobby - and I constantly would see realistic nudes. Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy...there wasn't this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner."

On shooting the cover: "At one point I was posing for [Mario Testino], and he was talking from behind the camera and he was like, 'You have to fliiiirt, darleeeng. You have to bee-leeve you are wuuuurthy to be on the cover.' And then at one point he said very quietly, 'Lift your chin, darling. You are not eighteen.' I was like, 'You probably say that to all the 23-year-olds.'"

On dressing up: "I think women dress for other women to let them know what their deal is. Because if women were only dressing for men, there would be nothing but Victoria's Secret. There would be no Dior."

Read the complete article over at Vogue.com.

Screengrab courtesy of Vogue.com.