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" Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief. "

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

" 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. "

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

Helen Fisher

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" A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date because you don't feel the fireworks. The fireworks can happen at any time and be maintained. "

" Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive. "

" You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with. "

" 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. "

" The human brain is built to compare; it's Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself. "

" There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love. "

" There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some reason, that mechanism could get triggered again. You can literally fall in love again. "

" For men, being too put-together implies femininity. "

" A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry. "

" As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. "

" Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.' "

" Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live. "

" At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. "

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

" 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. "

" Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. "

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

" I think the happiness we find, we make. "

" I was married and divorced at 23. "

Helen Fisher

Married

Divorced

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

" If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills. "

" 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. "

" My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed. "

Helen Fisher

Values

You

" As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men. "

" Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. "

" You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too young, too stuffy, too scruffy. "