Helen Fisher

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

“I think you will find that with divorce will come happier remarriages.”

“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.”

“I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Of all the foods we share, there is nothing more primordial than meat. It's no surprise that meat-eaters still want a partner who will give, receive and share this primordial symbol of a budding partnership.”

“We still have community, but we don't seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother's down the street, they're not in arm's length.”

“Jealousy can even be good for love. One partner may feel secretly flattered when the other is mildly jealous. And catching someone flirting with your beloved can spark the kind of lust and romance that reignites a relationship.”

“I've always maintained that men were more romantic than women.”

“Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.”

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

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

“Since when is anyone truly honest with anyone?”

“I think that property is very important in this day and age. It defines you; you worked hard to get it. It's meaningful to you, and when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property for good reasons.”

“From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each influenced by a different brain chemical: I call them the Explorer, Builder, Director, and Negotiator.”

“Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.”

“In courtship, who wins and who loses will determine who passes on their DNA to tomorrow.”

“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.”

“Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.”