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" There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual. "

" Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets. "

" You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy. "

" The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. "

" People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. "

" The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. "

" In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage. "

" When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there. "

" There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance. "

" Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together. "

" Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years. "

" Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. "

" We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes. "

" The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again. "

" There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being. "

" Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing. "

" Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too. "

" Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap. "

" Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. "

" I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one. "

" From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator. "

" People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love. "

" Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship. "

" It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. "

" When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. "

" You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems. "

" As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. "

" A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry. "

" I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity. "

" It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. "