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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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Helen E Fisher
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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.
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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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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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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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When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
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I was married and divorced at 23.
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Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
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As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.
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Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
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There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again.
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Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
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Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.
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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
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There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.
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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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Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!
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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
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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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