Quotes from Helen Fisher

Women have a better sense of color and a better color memory. They're more likely to notice when something doesn't match; more likely to notice what you're wearing.

The only people you and I are likely to know in common are people in the news - politicians, journalists and celebrities.

Romantic love is an obsession. It possesses you. You lose your sense of self. You can't stop thinking about another human being.

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

Romantic love is not an emotion. ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind.

Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

Psychologists maintain that the dizzy feeling of intense romantic love lasts only about 18 months to-at best-three years

Men are so visual, they see a woman who appeals to them physically, and it will trigger the romantic love system faster.

Romantic love is one of the most addictive substances on Earth.

Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere; some say the poorest in the world.

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

In America, we are demanding everything from our marriage.

Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

People kill for love. They die for love.

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.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

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

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.

Men fall in love faster than, and just as often as, women.

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

If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.

Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'