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Vanna Bonta was an Italian-American writer, actress, and inventor. She wrote Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel. As an actress, Bonta played "Zed's Queen" in The Beastmaster. She performed primarily as a voice talent on a roster of feature films, such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, as well as on television. Bonta invented the 2suit, a flight garment designed to facilitate sex in microgravity environments of outerspace. The spacesuit was featured on The Universe television series, which followed Bonta into zero gravity to film an episode titled Sex in Space that aired in 2009 on the History Channel.On 13 November 2013, a haiku by Bonta was one of 1,100 haiku launched from Cape Canaveral on the NASA spacecraft MAVEN to Mars. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. April 1958 – 8. July 2014
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Vanna Bonta Quotes

“I hated you because you reminded me of…how I once was…of what I lost.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

“Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.”

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Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

“Recognition of one’s fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.”

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State of the Art (2000)

“There is no greater poverty than oblivion to self and others.”

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State of the Art (2000)

“Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.”

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Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 60

“I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.”

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"I Gave My Smile"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

“We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos. And as its progeny it is our duty use the best of our ability and continue that.”

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The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)

“Love is the eternal first breath.”

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"Home"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

“She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.”

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Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

“To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.”

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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 15

“Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.”

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Inventors Digest http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/591#sthash.V1dXCLZB.dpuf magazine, interview; May 2009 issue

“Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.”

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from Rewards of Passion, quoted on Wilfred FX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_%28U.S._TV_series%29, Season 3, Episode 6

“Life kissed her however it could.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 22

“Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.”

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The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)

“As people become more aware of this universe as a quantum universe, it will embrace things like holographic entertainment experiences. Already, virtual reality and virtual interaction are an element of quantum fiction.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

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"Gratuitous"
Shades of the World (1985)

“Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“It’s vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity’s continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.”

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Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), Ch. 5

“Unfamiliar environments heighten adrenalin, which might work for stimulating excitement or against totally relaxing into any kind of intimacy.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“These elements — rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity — can inevitably be identified within whatever is proclaimed 'poetry.”

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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“I love the sound of those engines.”

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about Formula One cars, quoted at Indy 500 Speedway. Hot Race, Hot Folks At Indy 500 Speedway http://press.xtvworld.com/article12011.html June 9, 2006

“When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)

“When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it’s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.”

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Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)

“Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Sex is powerful, it's procreative, it's a force that drives salmon to swim up stream defying rocky obstacles to thrash new forms into existence and, physiologically, the human body is also rigged with that drive that ensures the human race will continue.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“The masses once dined on opera and Shakespeare.”

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State of the Art (2000)

“Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“For literary purposes, the art of writing poetry can be simply defined as: A creative act using language as a medium refined to an art.”

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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“Earth gravity and a line of horizon is how we, as Earth humans, are accustomed to gauging spatial orientation.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 23

“Sex is as personally unique to individuals as it is universal.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.”

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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“Experiencing that in general was curiously amazing.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Sandra let her words fly on an arrow of certainty. "I know the whereabouts of a bona fide extra terrestrial."”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 28

“We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable.”

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The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

“Really, other one-pop variations of sex pale after it goes cosmic. And there is an abundance of fake or imitation sex around.”

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Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)

“Some things can never be explained. Like the summer Jim died and they called his name the next year in class and he didn't answer.”

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"Vacuum"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

“I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 17

“Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.”

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Quoted by MSNBC during a panel discussion at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference. Outer-space sex carries complications http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14002908/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/outer-space-sex-carries-complications, by Alan Boyle; MSNBC July 24, 2006

“As technology puts the God-wand into the hands of mankind, new ethical issues never before facing us pose harrowing decisions.”

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State of the Art (2000)

“To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.”

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The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)

“Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

“Sex in space is more than a Big Bang.”

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Femail Magazine June 2008. Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space http://www.femail.com.au/vanna-bonta-talks-sex-in-space.htm

“Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.”

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Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

“Money is a human invention.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)