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.

I'm not much of a 'road not taken' person.

I like dressing sexy, and I like having a good time.

Honestly, in retrospect, it probably was a little easier being an adolescent and not having people immediately know that Hef was my dad.

Relationships between men and women have become much more complicated.

I think I've established my own identity here at Brandeis.

Before I went to work for 'Playboy,' I planned to apply to Yale to get a public policy master's. I felt drawn to go into politics. Even before that, my dream was to wind up either in the Senate or on the Supreme Court. I had big dreams as a little girl.

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.

In any endeavor, you have to understand your tolerance for risk. What's a failure you can afford?

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

What's funny in Italy may not be funny in Spain.

I think this country is growing up a little bit.

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

I never thought I was going to go to work for my father's company.

I don't think you can know too many smart people. I don't think you should ever stop meeting people.

If you ever get to a point where you stop learning, you will find your professional options and your personal satisfaction severely curtailed.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

My father is not that comfortable with children, but he's a terrific father for an adult.

I consider myself very fortunate to grow up in a time when my family, my friends don't look at me funny because I'm a 29-year-old single woman.

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

The world changed on us. In a world where there were singles bars in every city, women weren't going to go out and hang out in a Playboy Club.

What you don't do is as important as what you do.

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

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.

My father has always enjoyed games... always with a combination of the fun and social side of it, but also always highly competitive.

I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'

I'm certainly proud of the transformation of Playboy from a magazine to a multimedia corporation.

When I first came to Playboy, I thought I would go on and do something else in a few years. But when the company got into trouble with political and regulatory challenges, I felt that I could really lead the turn around.

I'm motivated and driven, and I have been from a young age.

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.

My mantra is, I want to work with people that I like to hang out with, who are smart, where I can add value, that I think is an interesting space.

You can learn more about leadership by reading about Lincoln than you can from most business books.

I didn't have the luxury of devoting myself entirely to not-for-profit activities.

It's not unusual for someone running for Senate in Illinois to come see me.

I've always believed that you need to find interactive applications on the Internet.

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

I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

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.

I believed deeply that digital was an empowering opportunity for Playboy, not a threat.

It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

I consider Playboy very wholesome, frankly.

I'm private because I want to be private.

I live the life I want to lead.

While I have always had a good relationship with my father, much of the time it has been a very limited relationship until I was older. So you can't really give him credit or blame for how I turned out.

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.

Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.

Playboy's all about why it's worth working so hard.

I'd actually call myself pretty much a liberal. A progressive liberal. Because I do think that government is there to be a provider of services for people who cannot provide for themselves.

The people who relate to Playboy, both readers and people who produce it, are not the way the critics think they are.

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