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“There’s all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important. Mystery is important. You fall in love with somebody who’s somewhat mysterious, in part because mystery elevates dopamine in the brain, probably pushes you over that threshold to fall in love.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
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“A world without love is a deadly place.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
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“Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can’t stop thinking about another human being.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: The brain in love
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“Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: The brain in love
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“Millions of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brain. They’re going to survive as long as our species survives.”
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“People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It’s one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.”
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“[Women] tend to collect more pieces of data when they think, put them into more complex patterns, see more options and outcomes. They tend to be contextual, holistic thinkers.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
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“Romantic love is not an emotion. … It’s a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.”
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“Women’s worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men’s roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.”
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“The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.”
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“With orgasm, you get a real rush of oxytocin and vasopressin — those are associated with attachment. This is why you can feel such a sense of cosmic union with somebody after you’ve made love to them.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
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“I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce.”
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“Ninety-one percent of American women and 86 percent of American men would not marry somebody who had every single quality they were looking for in a partner, if they were not in love with that person.”
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“When you are madly in love with somebody: You walk into a parking lot, their car is different from every other car in the parking lot. Their wine glass at dinner is different from every other wine glass at the dinner party.”
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“Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.”
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“I think the happiness we find, we make.”
— Helen FisherHelen Fisher: Why we love, why we cheat
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