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Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Helen Fisher

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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
Scientist
Manhattan borough
New York City
Helen Fisher
Helen E Fisher
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Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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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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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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