251 Quotes by helen fisher

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

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

It's in our genes, we were built to wander.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

We all have restlessness in long-term relationships.

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.

I was married and divorced at 23.

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.