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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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Helen Fisher
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: May 31
Anthropologist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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Helen E Fisher
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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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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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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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Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.
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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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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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When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
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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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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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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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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.
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You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.
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When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.
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Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.
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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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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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