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" Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. "

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" I was married and divorced at 23. "

" 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. "

" Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' "

" The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. "

" Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone. "

" 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. "

" Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. "

" 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. "

" After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is. "

" When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women. "

" Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world. "

" If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills. "

" 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. "

" A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. "

" You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it. "

" Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it. "

" Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy. "

" Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. "

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

" When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, 'I found somebody.' Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box. "

" Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. "

" Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead. "

" 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. "

" Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience. "

" My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. "

" Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture. "

" As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. "