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
Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner… — Helen Fisher Food Copy Share Image
When chimps threaten, they open their mouth and show their teeth. It's a little like waving a knife in front of you.… — Helen Fisher Bizarre Copy Share Image
For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed. — Helen Fisher Career Copy Share Image
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 Always 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 Be good Copy Share Image
In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?'… — Helen Fisher Become Copy Share Image
“...if patterns of human love subtly change, all sorts of social and political atrocities can escalate.” — Helen Fisher Human love Copy Share Image
People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies. — Helen Fisher Been Copy Share Image
Women's worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men's roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs… — Helen Fisher Agriculture Copy Share Image
As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily. — Helen Fisher Economic Copy Share Image
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological… — Helen Fisher Childhood Copy Share Image
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage. — Helen Fisher Committed Copy Share Image
A lot of people head into courtship looking for fireworks. Don't pass up a chance by dumping someone after a first date… — Helen Fisher After 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 Brain Copy Share Image
You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can't you be instantly romantically in love? I think when… — Helen Fisher Because 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
Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world. — Helen Fisher Country Copy Share Image
Men couldn't care less if your strands are perfectly styled and neat. In fact, he might like you more with some wildness… — Helen Fisher Care Copy Share Image
The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. — Helen Fisher Basic Copy Share Image
We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us. — Helen Fisher Challenges Copy Share Image
