Women encourage killers. They do it by falling in love with warriors and heroes. Men know it and respond with enthusiasm. The Crusaders marched off to war with ladies favors in their helmets. The heroes sliced up adults and baked infants on spits, all the while thinking of how the damsels back home would admire their bravery.
Howard Bloom (2013). “The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.