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Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs.
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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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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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You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.
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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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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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Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
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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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People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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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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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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Men and women are like two feet they can help each other get ahead.
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Romantic love is an addiction.
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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] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.
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The human brain is built to compare it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.
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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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