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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man. "

" 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. "

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

" There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again. "

" We all have restlessness in long-term relationships. "

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

" I was married and divorced at 23. "

" Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched. "

" 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. "

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

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

" Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "