Helen Fisher Quotes

Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.

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

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

I'm turned off by the groupie thing. I'm a romantic; I like finding the right woman, and if it works, it works.

Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.

I'm finally dating. It's fun.

A commission is an invitation to fall in love.

Love is just chemistry.

I love being one half of a romantic couple.

Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.

If you're in love and there's that chemistry, that's what it's all about.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

I've never dated; I've always been in relationships.

Romantic love is a trap designed to get two people to overlook each other's faults long enough to get some babymaking done. It generally only lasts for a few years at most.

Sex is funny and love is serious.

When you're friends with someone, you can't just go out to dinner and say 'O.K., now this is a date.' You've got to do something very different.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

I absolutely did date Victoria Beckham, yes.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I'm in love with love and totally believe in marriage, but that's not even on my radar right now. I am not putting energy into dating.

The state of being in love is so inherently preposterous. It usually lends itself to romantic comedy. I think we've all been there.

What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.

For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

When you first fall in love it's so thrilling, you can't wait to throw yourself away and make this new wonderful twosome.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.