Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream, Steven Watts, 2008, pages 238-239:
' . . . Put in touch by a mutual friend, they tried unsuccessfully to met up in New York City and Hefner sent a note of dismay over having missed her. "There's the possibility that I should leave things as intriguing and mysterious as they are. Nothing you can say, as a novelist friend once pointed out to me, is nearly as good as what the readers will imagine," Steinem wrote back. . . '