Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. — Helen Fisher Competition Copy Share Image
There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Your face and head give more information about you than any other body part. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too. — Helen Fisher Brain Copy Share Image
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual. — Helen Fisher Biology Copy Share Image
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives… — Helen Fisher Attachment Copy Share Image
More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
You size up someone physically in less than one second - too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too old, too… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering. — Helen Fisher Adultery Copy Share Image
Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize… — 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
What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and… — 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
I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's… — Helen Fisher Age 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
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it's associated with the female hormone… — Helen Fisher Body Copy Share Image
A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's… — 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
If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words. — Helen Fisher Courage Copy Share Image
There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love. — Helen Fisher Ability Copy Share Image
As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Good-looking people are always looking for other good-looking people. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Scientists know that women gravitate to men who have a different immune system from theirs. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow. — Helen Fisher Courtship Copy Share Image
When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women. — Helen Fisher Anger Copy Share Image
I can't conceive of caring more about my president than my own partner. — 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 Animal 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
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected. — Helen Fisher Alive Copy Share Image
