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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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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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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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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.
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I was married and divorced at 23.
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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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