Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an addiction.

— Helen Fisher

Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?

— Helen Fisher

I think the happiness we find, we make.

— Helen Fisher

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

— Helen Fisher

We are lied to by our love songs.

— Helen Fisher

love is like Someone is camping in your head

— Helen Fisher

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

— Helen Fisher

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

— Helen Fisher

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

— Helen Fisher

Hair that gleams can send a clear sign that you're young and in your prime, whatever your actual age.

— Helen Fisher

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

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

— Helen Fisher

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

— Helen Fisher

People have been looking for love potions since hunter-gatherer societies.

— Helen Fisher

After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.

— Helen Fisher

Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you've been rejected.

— Helen Fisher

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's…

— Helen Fisher

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

Any kind of novelty or excitement drives up dopamine in the brain, and dopamine is associated with romantic love.

— Helen Fisher

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 Fisher

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

— Helen Fisher

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going…

— Helen Fisher

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and…

— Helen Fisher

Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been…

— Helen Fisher

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

You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your 'love map,' an unconscious list of traits that you…

— Helen Fisher

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

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

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would…

— Helen Fisher

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end…

— Helen Fisher

Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that…

— Helen Fisher

From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each…

— Helen Fisher

“Personality is composed of two fundamentally different types of traits: those of 'character;' and those of 'temperament.' Your character traits stem from…

— Helen Fisher

We are wired to find love.

— Helen Fisher

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

— Helen Fisher

I was married and divorced at 23.

— Helen Fisher

People kill for love. They die for love.

— Helen Fisher

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

— Helen Fisher

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

— Helen Fisher

Along with our many human propensities, we evolved a huge cerebral cortex with which we make decisions.

— Helen Fisher