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Helen Fisher Inspirational Quotes (89)

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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
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You know, when you've been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life - but no, you just love them harder.
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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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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.
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The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.
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We evolved in a tropical climate where the smells of plants and flowers were all around us. We spent a lot of time in the trees with a lot of sunlight and no clothes.
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You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.
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Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.
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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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love is like Someone is camping in your head
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Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
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Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
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