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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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" It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful. "

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" I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one. "

" 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. "

" As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. "

" 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. "

" You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it. "

" Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love. "

" I was married and divorced at 23. "

Helen Fisher

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Divorced

" When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it. "

" 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. "

" I suspect privacy is a very new concept to humanity. "

" 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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Money

Education

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he like me?' 'Does he think I'm fat?' "

" Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. "

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

" Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. "

" 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. "

" More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them. "

Helen Fisher

Everyone

Live

" Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part. "

Helen Fisher

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You

" There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance. "

" The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities. "

" In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. "

" Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry. "

" Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Helen Fisher

You