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

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" 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. "

" Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief. "

" 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. "

" More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them. "

" Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. "

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

" Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length. "

" As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. "

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

" Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. "

" Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. "

" I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. "

" In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he like me?' 'Does he think I'm fat?' "

" Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued. "

" When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away. "

" Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership. "

" Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to. "

" For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. "

" You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love. "

" A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. "

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

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

" Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. "

" 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. "

" I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner. "

" We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us. "

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