People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.
I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.
