Gloria Steinem Quotes

Hugh Hefner represented pop culture in a way that no else could.

To this day people will say, 'What do you think about doing 'Playboy?'' I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

Scarface, I don't think, has done anything in his whole career to tarnish his legacy.

The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!

I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader's style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

There are people who will appreciate what I've done, and there will be people who will criticize me. Ultimately history will have the final say.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

In his lifetime Lincoln was maligned and traduced, but detraction during a man's lifetime affords no test of his life's value nor offers any forecast of history's verdict. It would almost seem as if the glory of immortality were anticipated in the life of the great by detraction and denial whilst they yet lived.

The world may censure me for what I am about to do, but I am sure that posterity will justify me.

As for my conduct in public office, my compatriots, as is usually the case, will divide their opinions; their children will render true judgment.

I think in the '80s, we certainly wrestled with what was the role of 'Playboy Magazine' in a post-sexual revolution, post-feminist world.

History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero.

Somebody the other day had a review, called me 'America's reprobate.' And I don't even know what that means, but I kinda like the way it sounds.

I happen to write a lot of stories that make Kissinger look bad. I'd rather that the stories weren't true, but they all happen to be true.

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

I don't think 'Playboy' would have been successfully started on either coast.

The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can't stand the name of Blackwater, that's fine, I'll never really win them over anyway. And I really don't care.

Anything to do with the Beatles is very complicated.

Playboy has a long history of high-quality interviews along with the objectification of women, and so I think she does have a point there. I don't think that the words are necessarily nullified. It's just that that context is something you ought to be suspicious of.

Mocking Hugh Hefner is easy to do, and in my mind should be made easier.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.