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" Men's magazines in the period immediately after World War II were almost all outdoor-oriented. They were connected to some extent in the male bonding that came out of a war... And what I tried to create was a magazine for the indoor guy, but focused specifically on the single life: in other words, the period of bachelorhood before you settle down. "

Hugh Hefner

Words

You

" Could I be in a better place and happier than I am today? I don't think so. "

" I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married. "

" I think everyone should get married. I just took a little longer than usual. "

" Even when I was young, I said age is largely a state of mind if you're healthy. "

" I am in very good health. I've never felt better. "

" It is women who have traditionally, historically been given non-human roles, perceived as simply the daughters of Eve, perceived as either Madonna or whore. And I think that it is the sexual revolution that plays one part in female emancipation. "

" Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy. "

" If you let society and your peers define who you are, you're the less for it. "

" I looked back on the roaring Twenties - with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby,' and the pre-Code films - as a party I had somehow managed to miss. After World War Two, I expected something similar, a return to the period after the first war, but when the skirt lengths went down instead of up, I knew we were in big trouble. "

" The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex. "

" The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad. "

" Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream. "

" I always say now that I'm in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonde. "

" I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart. "

" I looked back on the roaring Twenties, with its jazz, 'Great Gatsby' and the pre-Code films as a party I had somehow managed to miss. "

" When I was four, we moved to the house on the west side of Chicago where I grew up. My earliest memories are of that first summer. "

" I have very strong theories about magazine publishing. And I think that it is the most personal form of journalism. And I think that a magazine is an old friend. "

" Ageism is a variation of racism or sexism, all the other isms. "

" Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers. "

" Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole. "

Hugh Hefner

Thinking

Past

" The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people. "

" I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. "

" What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine. "

" The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. "

" Someone once asked, 'What's your best pickup line?' I said, 'My best pickup line is, 'Hi, my name is Hugh Hefner.' "

" Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did. "

" Sex, and the attraction between the sexes, does make the world go 'round. "

Hugh Hefner

Attraction

World

" I have been married twice, and those were not the happiest times of my life. Part of the problem, quite frankly, is that when you get married, the romance disappears and the children arrive and the love is transferred. It shouldn't be that way, but too often it is transferred to the children. "

" The women's movement, from my point of view, was part of the larger sexual revolution that 'Playboy' had played such a large part in. The reality is that the major beneficiaries of the sexual revolution are women. "