Helen Fisher Quotes - Page 2

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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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  Interesting, Planets, Educated

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• Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Love Is, Substance

  "What if I never get over him (or her) - you asked Google, here's the answer" by Annalisa Barbieri, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2015.

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• love is like Someone is camping in your head

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  Love Is, Camping, Obsession

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• Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.

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  Reading, Voice, Matter

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• From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.

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  Believe, Fall, People

  "Finding and Keeping the Love of Your Life". Article by Helen Fisher, www.oprah.com. February, 2009.

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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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  Mother, Baby, Children

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

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• Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

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  Men, Games, Imagination

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• Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people.

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  People, Looking Good

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• You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

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  Real, Men, Differences

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• Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

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  Happiness, Baby, Romantic Love

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

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• Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

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  Men, Smell, Levels

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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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  Happiness, Romantic Love, Thinking

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• In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.

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  Men, Example, Mating

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• Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.

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  Men, Trying, Looks

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• There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

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  Spiritual, Feelings, Biology

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• For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

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  Careers, Generations, Path

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• Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

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  Mind, Meeting Someone, Three

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• Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.

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  Jealous, Flirting, Romance

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• Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

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  Couple, Intellectual, Together

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• Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

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  Powerful, Kissing, Choices

  "Pucker up: Scientists study kissing" by Elizabeth Landau, www.cnn.com. February 13, 2009.

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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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  School, College, Men

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• I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

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  Men

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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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  Self Esteem, Jealous, Winning

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• Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

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  Men, Desire, Committed

  "After All of the Celebrity Divorces, Do You Still Have Faith in Marriage?" by Sarah Wildman, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.

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• Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

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  Men, Important, Quality

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