Helen Fisher Quotes - Page 5

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• When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.

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  Attachment, Oxytocin, Brain

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• Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

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  Office, Romance, Destructive

  "Single Ladies, Don't Despair: Men Do Want to Commit" by Olivia Katrandjian, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2011.

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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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  Bars, Replacements, Estrogen

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• People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

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  People, Hunters, Looking For Love

  "Pharmaceutica L Love Potion Not yet..." by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

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  Brain, Study, Chemistry

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• When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

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  Fighting, Men, Men And Women

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• Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

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  Ostracism, Evolution

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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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  Flower, Smell, Clothes

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• We are lied to by our love songs.

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  Song, Our Love, Lied

  "Love and Sex and Attachment". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 12, 2015.

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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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  Romantic Love, Irrational, Overwhelming

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• Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.

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  Jobs, Motivation, Powerful

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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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  Home, Men, Hunting

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• My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

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  Conservative, Republican, Hypothesis

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• Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

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  Views, Long, Globalization

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• I was married and divorced at 23.

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  Married, Divorced

  "Falling in love: It's all about brain chemistry". Interview with Michelle Brence, www.oregonlive.com. February 17, 2009.

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• We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.

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  Mother, Community, Arms

  "Motherhood 2.0: It takes an (online) village" by Adrienne Mand Lewin, www.today.com. October 12, 2009.

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• Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

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  Country, Hemisphere, World

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• Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

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  Men, Needs, Talent

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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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  Clothes, Sheep, Dinner

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• If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.

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  Sleep, Infatuated, Ifs

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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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  Thinking, Purple, People

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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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  Animal, Rhinos, Porcupines

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• We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

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  Long, Term, Restlessness

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• Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young.

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  Children, Average, Europe

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• The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

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  People, News, Common

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