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01Undated

I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.

Helen Fisher / quote

02Undated

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 / quote

03Undated

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They've never found a society that did not have it.

Helen Fisher / quote

04Undated

Psychologists maintain that the dizzying feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to - at best - three years.

Helen Fisher / quote

05Undated

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

Helen Fisher / quote

06Undated

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

Helen Fisher / quote

07Undated

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

Helen Fisher / quote