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" Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. "
Helen Fisher
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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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" We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. "
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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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" You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it's because you are ready to fall in love. "
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" The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. "
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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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" 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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" 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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