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Romantic love is an addiction.

Helen Fisher

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
Addiction
Romantic
Happiness
Love

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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
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Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
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