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" One of the problems with organized religion is that it has always kept women in a second-class position. They have been viewed as the daughters of Eve. "

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" 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. "

" I think that retirement is the first step towards the grave. "

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

" I guess I'm the most successful man I know. I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. "

" The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols. "

" I'm never going to grow up. Staying young is what it is all about for me. "

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

" What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same. "

" 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. "

" Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. "

" 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. "

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

" If I ever try to get married again, shoot me. "

" 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. "

" With the rabbit as our emblem, when we got to the point in 1960 of opening the first Playboy Club... one of our executives suggested the possibility of a bunny costume. We tried it out, and I made some modifications - added the cuffs and the bow tie and collar - and the bunny was born. "

" The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there. "

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

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

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

" Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now. "

" 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. "

" People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn. "

" I'm not an active feminist: I'm an active humanist. "

" I separated ways from the American feminist movement when they became anti-sexual. I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free. "

" 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. "

" I was an absent dad. Once the magazine started, I really had two families. The dream was the magazine. I worked through the night all the time. "

" I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married. "