Helen Fisher Quotes - Page 6

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• Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

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  World, Modern, Turns

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• As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world.

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  People, Groups, World

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• Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

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  Tattoo, Spheres, Social

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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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• 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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  Giving, Meat, Want

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• I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner.

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  Caring, President, Partners

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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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• There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

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  Memories, Brain, Emotion

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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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• 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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• Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness or bedhead, since it shows you're carefree and relaxed.

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  Men, Care, Might

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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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• When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you. It's very primitive, and therefore bizarre.

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  Knives, Teeth, Mouths

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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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