Quotes from Christie Hefner

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

It's embarrassing to be in the only westernized economy that doesn't have paid family leave and flex scheduling, and that disproportionately helps women.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

I think when you're on a visiting relationship rather than a living relationship, it's kind of hard to have impact as a parent.

It's so deeply disturbing to me that half of the eligible voters don't vote in this country. We talk about how divided the country is. The truth is, we don't even know. We just know what the half that voted thought.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

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

If I wear a suit, as I generally do in the business world, it's supposed to mean I'm retreating from competition with the bunnies. If I wear a very glamorous romantic dress, as I'm very likely to do if I'm going out in the evening, then I'm supposed to be competing with the bunnies.

I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

From the time that I can remember, I worked to make money - either baby-sitting, or one year wrapping gifts at a department store at Christmas, so I could have my own money.

My mother thinks I could have even run a larger company.

I've always believed about brands and media that the mistake sometimes that's made is to think you're just going to take what you've been doing and kind of re-purpose it into the new platform. I don't think that ever works because consumers look for different experiences in different media formats.

It's mutual respect and love that are important, not a wedding.

Nightclubs are a small-revenue business that go through pretty fast popularity cycles.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

Any brand that attempts to live off a retro appeal is only going through a short second life cycle.

Being a CEO still means sitting across the table from big institutional investors and showing your leadership and having them believe in you.

I'm among the many Chicagoans who love to take advantage of the opportunity to dine outdoors in the summer months.

We're fortunate in my family because we really have three families: my brother, David, and me; the two boys, Cooper and Marston, from my dad's second marriage; and my dad's wife, Crystal.

I developed a great sense of self-confidence when I was very young.

We should all miss bookstores. They let you discover things.