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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.
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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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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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At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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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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Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.
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