Top 141 Quotes by Helen Fisher

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

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.

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

When somebody leaves Match.com or Chemistry.com, they ask you why you left. One box you can check is, 'I found somebody.' Between 15 and 20 percent of people check that box.

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.

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.

There's every reason to think SSRIs blunt your ability to fall and stay in love.

Throughout evolution, ostracism was death indeed.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

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.