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Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power.
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.
We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.
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.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
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.
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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