... the hormones; omnipresent, pervasive, sustaining mist of life; energizing; father and mother of testos-terone and estrogen, nicknamed the mother hormone,” the Zeus and Hera of hormones; robustly ... capacity to read faces and tone of voice for emotions and states of mind, and the ability to defuse conflict. All of this is hardwired into the brains of women. These are the talents women are born ... and sometimes is a storm cloud re-versing the effects of estrogen; other times is a mellowing agent; mother of allopregnenolone (the brain s Valium, i.e., chill pill). Testosterone—fast, assertive,...