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" Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" 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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" 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. "

" Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship. "

" There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love. "

" 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. "

" I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women. "

" A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability. "

" If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work. "

" Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. "

" Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed. "

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

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

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" Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do! "

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

" Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. "

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" Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. "