251 Quotes by helen fisher

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

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

The double-income family was the standard. We are really moving back to the past.

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

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

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,

You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.

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