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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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I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.
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There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this mortal coil.
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Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.
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I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.
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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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As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.
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People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.
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The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.
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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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A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.
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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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Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
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Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
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Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.
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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 was married and divorced at 23.
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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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