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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. (Helen Fisher)
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead. View quote
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I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women. View quote
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Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. View quote
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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. View quote
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Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys do, and women never lose that superiority in verbal ability. (Helen Fisher)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap. View quote
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Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Helen Fisher)
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. View quote
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In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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