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I was married and divorced at 23.

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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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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As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
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There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.
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Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
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From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.
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It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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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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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
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Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
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love is like Someone is camping in your head
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A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
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What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.
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I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy we are an animal that was built to reproduce.
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Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.
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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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