Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

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.

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.

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

Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

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.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.