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Helen Fisher Quotes

The human brain is built to compare; it’s Darwinian to consider an alternative when one presents itself.

– Helen Fisher

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone – to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew.

– Helen Fisher

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

– Helen Fisher

Like most animals, we’re wired to associate height with power.

– Helen Fisher

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you’re having a chemical experience.

– Helen Fisher

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

– Helen Fisher

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

– Helen Fisher

Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends’ T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover’s handkerchief.

– Helen Fisher

In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.

– Helen Fisher

There’s every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

– Helen Fisher

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

– Helen Fisher

You fall in love with somebody who fits within what I call your ‘love map,’ an unconscious list of traits that you build in childhood as you grow up. And I also think that you gravitate to certain people, actually, with somewhat complementary brain systems.

– Helen Fisher

You can be instantly scared. You can be instantly happy. So why can’t you be instantly romantically in love? I think when it happens, it’s because you are ready to fall in love.

– Helen Fisher

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

– Helen Fisher

There’s a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

– Helen Fisher

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

– Helen Fisher

Anthropologists have found evidence of romantic love in 170 societies. They’ve never found a society that did not have it.

– Helen Fisher

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 gym at 6 A.M. every day – Why? Because she’s there.

– Helen Fisher

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

– Helen Fisher

People kill for love. They die for love.

– Helen Fisher

You can get into a very fancy car and know everything about the engine, but when you drive in that car, you feel that rush. In the same way, I think the more you know about love, the more you can enjoy it. And knowing about your personality type, who you are and what kind of person you’re dealing with gives you a great leg up.

– Helen Fisher

Romantic love is an addiction.

– Helen Fisher

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

– Helen Fisher

Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.

– Helen Fisher

We’re apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

– Helen Fisher

I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

– Helen Fisher

You know, when you’ve been dumped, the one thing you love to do is just forget about this human being, and then go on with your life – but no, you just love them harder.

– Helen Fisher

Whether you’re married or not, relationships – and the satisfaction tied to them – are extremely important for increasing men’s and women’s quality of life.

– Helen Fisher

We are wired to find love.

– Helen Fisher

There’s more than one person on the planet. When you’re madly in love, that’s not what you think.

– Helen Fisher

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