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" Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead. "
Helen Fisher
Men
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Two
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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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" The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. "
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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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" A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough economically and culturally to bring up a child without a recognized commitment from a man. "
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" There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. "
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" Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. "
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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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" Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched. "
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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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" People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.' You can know every single ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake, and then when you sit down and eat that cake, you can still feel that joy. "
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Joy
Me
" Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. "
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System
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" Your sweetheart calls you by another's name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy - that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation - can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival. "
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Best Friend
Best
" We are wired to find love. "
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Wired
Love
" 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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" When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women. "
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You
Anger
" I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. "
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Will
You
" If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work. "
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Work
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" Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed. "
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Ostracism
Evolution
" Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions. "
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Many
Along
" The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again. "
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" A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry. "
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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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" Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. "
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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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" Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. "
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Almost
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" When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue. "
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Brain
Tongue
" Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. "
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Animals
" 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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Married
Women
Men