Helen Fisher Quotes - Page 5

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• Women like signs of money and education - things that indicate that not only is this guy going to have some resources, but he's also willing to share them.

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  Guy, Share, Resources

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• Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

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  Happiness, Romantic Love, Found

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• High heels can literally raise your
  status because you're taller when you wear them.

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  High Heels, Raises, Heels

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• You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you're dealing with gives you a great leg up.

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  Thinking, Knowing, Fancy Cars

  "DNA Dating: Finding Your Genetic Match", abcnews.go.com. February 21, 2009.

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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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• 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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• Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.

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  Hair, People, Looks

  "Summer Looks Guys Will Go Gaga For". The Cosmopolitan Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. July 11, 2005.

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• Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

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  Kissing, Men, Smell

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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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• 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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• Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

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  Decision, Propensity, Humans

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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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• People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

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  People, Novel, Sitcom

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• In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

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  America

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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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• 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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• We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

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  Long, Term, Restlessness

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