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.

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.

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.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

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

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

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