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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
Helen Fisher
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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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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As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
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I was married and divorced at 23.
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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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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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You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
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Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
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A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man.
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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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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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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
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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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My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
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Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.
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People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.
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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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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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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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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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