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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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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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High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.
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Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.
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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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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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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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love is like Someone is camping in your head
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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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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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Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'
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When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.
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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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There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.
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Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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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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My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
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Romantic love is an addiction.
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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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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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