Christie Hefner Quotes

The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely taken over by the feminists. And the feminists, I think, are the most destructive elements in our society.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

I'm not a sex symbol.

I am not a sex symbol.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Masculine ideals have become very confused in the modern world.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it's pandering to everything that's wrong, and I don't think it's nice, especially for young girls.

What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we!

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?'

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

I never read Playboy before I started working there and stopped reading it the day I quit.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

I don't know what a world would be like if you do away with sexy images.

It's not my plan or whatever in my life to be a sex symbol. It never is. You are who you are, but you can't help what you look like. And when you do a film, like for me, it's just not about that. I would prefer to downplay it. I prefer to downplay the sex appeal.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.

I was in Asia and people asked me about being considered sex symbol. I don't know if that's good or not, because where I come from, sex isn't something you're allowed to talk about.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

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