Several years ago, I was creating a Christmas present for the family, a self-published cookbook featuring recipes my grandmother had collected and created over decades. While interviewing her for the biographical section, she began to talk about her courtship with my late grandfather.
So much of courtship is the unspoken.
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
I've always said men should study romance novels to find out how women think and what they want, both during the courtship phase and in a lifelong partner.
It's true that romance novels do detail the courtship phase of a relationship. We usually write 'And they lived happily ever after' before our heroine starts snoring or our hero starts tossing his socks over the hamper.
Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: "That women are timid:" And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.