Investing Quote by Robert Wright

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age…

— E. O. Wilson

“In many species, males pay for sex. For example, among black ticked hanging flies, an amorous male will present a female with a nice,…

— Steve Stewart-Williams

Courtship, properly understood, is the process whereby both the male and the female are brought into that state of sexual tumescence which is a…

— Havelock Ellis

Courtship is exciting and romantic because it thrives on the edge of disaster. It co-exists with the threat that, at any moment, it could…

— Karen Scalf Linamen

There is too little courtship in the world. ... For courtship means a wish to stand well in the other person's eyes, and, what…

— Vernon Lee

Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual,…

— Margaret Mead

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

— Peter R. Grant

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force…

— Jacob Bronowski

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

— Laurence Sterne

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

— Megan McCafferty

My son is a lecturer at Bristol University in anthropology. His degree was in, get this, human mating strategies - sex!

— Denis Lawson

Men are often (though not always) the pursuers for sex, just like women are often (though not always) the pursuers for conversation.

— Harriet Lerner