We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There's all kinds of reasons that you fall in love with one person rather than another: Timing is important. Proximity is important.… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
People have often asked me whether what I know about love has spoiled it for me. And I just simply say, 'Hardly.'… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I don’t think we’re an animal that was built to be happy; we are an animal that was built to reproduce. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
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… — Helen Fisher Copy Share
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… — Helen Fisher Copy Share
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with… — Helen Fisher Copy Share
In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he… — Helen Fisher Copy Share
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Copy Share
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. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And… — Helen Fisher Copy Share
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Copy Share
