Quotes from Helen Fisher

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

A world without love is a deadly place.

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.

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.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

The Great Depression of the 1930s saw more American unmarried women working from nine to five, mostly in repetitive, boring, subordinate, dead-end jobs. But the number of working women doubled between 1870 and 1940. During World War II it doubled once again.

When you look at the brain regions associated with picking up data from the body, a huge amount of the brain is devoted to picking up information from the lips and tongue.

A woman will toss her head and a man will say, 'Oh she's trying to pick me up,' when in fact she's not doing that at all. So, women actually have to be a little careful with what they do, because men will pick up things that they didn't mean.

Hair that looks like it's been naturally sun-bleached makes you seem youthful, like you spend a lot of time outdoors. And that appeals to most people.

Any time you choose not to hide your tattoo, you're limiting your social sphere, because they're not popular in big business.

Research shows that couples who have a lot of similarities, including intellectual compatibility, end up staying together.

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

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

love is like Someone is camping in your head

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!

We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.

Romantic love is an addiction.

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.

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

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.

A lot of people have been romantically in love with somebody who they feel wasn't appropriate to marry.