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Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

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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[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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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 women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.
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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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You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.
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We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
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It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.
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Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.
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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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It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer.
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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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If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.
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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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Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.
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We're not very dangerous animals we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.
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Neither gender is routinely more jealous - although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.
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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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love is like Someone is camping in your head
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Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.
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