Helen Fisher Quotes About Romance

Quotes about: Romance

• Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Games, Imagination

• There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

  Helen Fisher

  Sex, Romantic Love, Attachment

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

  Helen Fisher

  Romantic Love, Years, Romance

• That "ol' black magic" is a fickle force. The chemistry of romantic love can trigger the chemistry of sexual desire and the fuel of sexual desire can trigger the fuel of romance. This is why it is dangerous to copulate with someone with whom you don't wish to become involved. Although you intend to have casual sex, you might just fall in love.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Sex, Romantic Love

  Helen Fisher (2005). “Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love”, p.86, Macmillan

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Jealous, Flirting, Romance

• Barriers tend to intensify romance. It's called the 'Romeo and Juliet effect.' I call it 'frustration attraction.'

  Helen Fisher

  Frustration, Romance, Juliet

• 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.

  Helen Fisher

  Happiness, Romantic Love, Thinking

• Office romances are few, short, and not usually destructive.

  Helen Fisher

  Office, Romance, Destructive

  "Single Ladies, Don't Despair: Men Do Want to Commit" by Olivia Katrandjian, abcnews.go.com. February 3, 2011.

• Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap.

  Helen Fisher

  Attitude, Romance, Different

• There's a lot of talk about the positive aspects of love. We as a society downplay the danger, the anxiety, and the disappointment. We romanticize romance.

  Helen Fisher

  Disappointment, Romance, Anxiety

  "Do I Love My Wife? An Investigative Report" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. May 18, 2009.

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