Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

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.

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

I was married and divorced at 23.

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.