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
There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual. — Helen Fisher Biology 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 more than one person on the planet. When you're madly in love, that's not what you think. — Helen Fisher Love Copy Share Image
Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Today, American women bear an average of 2.2 children that live to adulthood. Across most of Europe, women bear even fewer young. — Helen Fisher Adulthood Copy Share Image
The Internet lets women use words, which is their natural tool. Little girls speak in more complex, grammatical sentences than little boys… — Helen Fisher Ability Copy Share Image
Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together. — Helen Fisher Compatibility 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 Control Copy Share Image
When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business. — 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 Chemistry 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
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 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 Attachment Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago, if you had a child out of marriage, you'd be a social disgrace. Today women feel comfortable enough… — Helen Fisher Children Copy Share Image
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner;… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Real competition can drive up testosterone, which boosts libido. — Helen Fisher Competition Copy Share Image
Every time you cuddle with your children, you're likely to be driving down your testosterone. — Helen Fisher Children 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
I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Like most animals, we're wired to associate height with power. — Helen Fisher Animal Copy Share Image
Men tend to be hierarchical, but women are driven to make lateral connections so they can cooperate. — Helen Fisher Connections 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
The women's movement is just a symptom of basic changes in the economy that are favoring women. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world. — 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
