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" Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other. "

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

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" 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. "

" Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive. "

" 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. "

" When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. "

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" 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. "

" The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I was married and divorced at 23. "

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" When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre. "

" Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up. "

" People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy. "

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" In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded. "

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" At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. "

" 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. "

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

" Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate. "

" Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice. "

" 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. "

" Love is not an emotion; it is a drive. "