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" Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing. "
Helen Fisher
Better
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Women
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" When you can't have someone but you're not willing to accept that, you try harder and become more extreme about it. Either you win the person back or you drive him away. "
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" At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. "
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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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" The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted. "
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" A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. "
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" It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. "
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" When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, 'I found somebody.' Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box. "
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" I was married and divorced at 23. "
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" I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. "
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" I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. "
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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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" I think the happiness we find, we make. "
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" Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women. "
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" Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age. "
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" People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. "
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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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" We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly. "
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" 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. "
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" Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship. "
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