Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

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.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

Mothers really were not built to raise babies not only by themselves, but with only a partner. For millions of years, a woman had much more than just her husband to help rear her young... This whole idea of 'it takes a village to raise a child' is exactly how we're supposed to live.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

The brain was not built to walk into a bar, where you know nobody, and start a conversation. That's not the way humanity has courted.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

People compose poetry, novels, sitcoms - for love.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

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!

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

In that early-love stage, you're in that state of exhilaration. You talk till dawn. You become obsessed with 'What does he think?' 'Does he like me?' 'Does he think I'm fat?'

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

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

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.

Helen Fisher
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
Helen Fisher

Women are naturally prone to compete over their mates.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

Touch is the mother of the senses. Not only are women more sensitive when they touch, but they're also more sensitive to being touched.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

Love is not an emotion; it is a drive.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

Women, it turns out, are built to lead - particularly in the modern world.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

When you fight, anger drives up testosterone in both men and women.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

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

Helen Fisher
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
Helen Fisher

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

Helen Fisher
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 playing a little psychological game with each other.

Helen Fisher
Helen Fisher

If we remained perpetually infatuated, we couldn't eat, sleep or work.