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

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" Men project their fantasies onto me; they live them through who they think I am. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married, I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in. "

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

" The women's movement kind of came out of left field in the 1960s and 1970s when they turned on 'Playboy.' "

" When 'Penthouse' and 'Hustler' came along, they confused what I was trying to do. Before they arrived, we were perceived as a sophisticated men's magazine. "

" 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. "

" There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. 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. "

" I have about 100 pairs of pajamas. I like to see people dressed comfortably. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I'm grateful. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I have no plans to retire. It's the perfect combination of work and play that keeps you young. If I quit work it would be the beginning of the end for me. "

" The business end of business has never interested me. "

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

" To pursue your dreams, to have them come true, to have made a difference, to have changed society, to have fought against powerful forces... that's a life well-spent. "