Christie Hefner Quotes

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any.

You didn't have to read 'Playboy,' visit the mansion, wear pajamas, or even be straight: The effects of its ideas about women on the American psyche were totalizing. Women were inferior to men because, for 'Playboy,' they were scenery - pretty, passive, usually white, often blonde, there.

Much of the discussion around how people look at women focuses on culture, as if the media is entirely to blame. As if, without magazines and commenting hosts, we'd all suddenly dress in practical overalls and only judge a person on the quality of their charity work and poetry.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.'

You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them down so much, but I think it's true.

If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

There's nothing wrong with looking at a woman's kneecaps.

I think that idea of 'because I'm sexy, I'm a feminist' is kind of immature. But as long as women think being sexy is what makes them beautiful and powerful... then it will continue.

Twerking is not feminism. Thats what I’m referring to. It’s not — it’s not liberating, it’s not empowering. It’s a sexual thing that you’re doing on a stage; it doesn’t empower you. That’s my feeling about it.

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

I personally find the ideas that girls need to cover their shoulders in school a little bit strange... when we're telling girls, you know, 'You have to cover your shoulders because otherwise you're a distraction to other people in your class,' probably something is wrong.

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.

I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled with commodification.

Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

Most of the women in film are there to be beautiful to the man.

Young girls have been infected by television programs and have become sex addicts…. Young women should not laugh in public.

I don't agree with beauty contests. I did it one time. It wasn't embarrassing being Wonder Woman; it was embarrassing walking around on stage in a bikini. It was ridiculous, stupid, and humiliating.

We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

If actors can show their abs, why can't women show their bikini bods?

I'm so aware how often women's bodies are objectified on film.