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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

“Space settlements would also contain biospheres replicating Earth conditions and atmosphere.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 75

“Eroticism means "caused by love." That is eroticism's meaning. (Erotic vs. porn) Real sex is erotic.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Love , Sex

“I consider myself more exportant than important.”

Vanna Bonta

Shades of the World, by Vanna Bonta; quoted in American Chronicle. Vanna Bonta interview, Inventors Digest: New Meaning To Beautiful http://archive.is/20120718091208/www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101039 May 02, 2009

“When we love there is no reason why.”

Vanna Bonta

"Nothing Besides Itself"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Love

“The view from space is described as life-changing…seeing Earth, our home planet, the jewel it is, a mass, a rock suspended in its neighborhood, our neighborhood, the universe.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Life , Home , Universe , Change

“Why have a cake if I can't eat it?”

Vanna Bonta

Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

“The success of SpaceShipOne was Justice Day for dreamers and pioneers past, present and future.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Justice , Success , Past , Future

“Through the process of elimination, the observer or some aspect of awareness is indirectly quantified.”

Vanna Bonta

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

“A poet's first contract is with truth.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

Truth

“Thirty-six million / miles of whispering welcome. / Mars, you called us home.”

Vanna Bonta

Haiku aboard NASA spaceship MAVEN, Mars mission (2013)

Home

“Stella, I never knew you but here I am, in your room, a week after your death. … I thought of you, Stella, and wondered if you watched your moments, or if they all snuck by. I whispered your name into the day, carried on for you in reverence, and I felt you rest and continue the smile.”

Vanna Bonta

"Stella's Earrings"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Death , Smile

“Our heartbeats pounding tomorrow into being…”

Vanna Bonta

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

“There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i. e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.”

Vanna Bonta

State of the Art (2000)

“Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.”

Vanna Bonta

Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Flowers , Heart

“Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.”

Vanna Bonta

essay "Justice vs. Punishment", Bonta recalling being reprimanded as a child, as quoted on the Waleg Celebrity News Archive. Vanna Bonta’s First Lesson in Justice http://www.waleg.com/celebrities/archives/005045.html, WALEG Celebrities, September 14, 2006. Justice vs. Punishment http://www.gurevitz.org/jim/justice.html, by Vanna Bonta

Penalty

“"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32

Death

“On Earth it was day in some places, night in others.”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 44

Night

“Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.”

Vanna Bonta

Vanna Bonta on the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. BonNova | X PRIZE Foundation official http://space.xprize.org/ng-lunar-lander-challenge/2008/teams/bonnova

Beauty

“Popularity is not an indication of quality.”

Vanna Bonta

Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

“The real plot in fiction parallels life in that it happens within the characters.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Life

“If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.”

Vanna Bonta

"Love Beyond Time"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Color , Star , Night

“Various editors, senior editors at major houses who wanted the book said that they didn't quite know what genre it was.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Books , Housing

“I believe Love is the most courageous act of which a human being is capable. The word courage even stems from the root word “heart” (coeur). Scientifically speaking, it is quantifiable only by recognition of its quality.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Love , Courage , Heart

“Dreams are the food of human progress. Poetry, like all physics, ultimately quantifies the unquantifiable that is beyond all form.”

Vanna Bonta

The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)

Food , Dreams

“I am, therefore I think.”

Vanna Bonta

Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)

Thinking

“Always is no Time at all.”

Vanna Bonta

Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Time

“Once, before Time…”

Vanna Bonta book Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel

Prologue
Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)

Time

“I wanted you to know me.”

Vanna Bonta

Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

“Love consults itself.”

Vanna Bonta

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

Love

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

Vanna Bonta

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

“Thought has no gender.”

Vanna Bonta

Source: Shades of the World (1985), p. 71

“God and I were nude.”

Vanna Bonta

to a randy reporter about modelling au naturel for Woman in "Ex Nihilo," the Creation sculpture by Frederick Hart that frames a portal arch of the Washington National Cathedral. The Things They Say http://www.reporter7.com/3992/the-things-they-say-vanna-bonta.htm Reporter7; July 6, 2006

God

“Life is my lover.”

Vanna Bonta

Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)

Life , Lovers