Helen Fisher

Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray

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  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    Smiling, it seems, we were born to do. Some infants begin to imitate their mother’s smile within thirty-six hours after birth, and all babies begin social smiling at about three months of age.9 Even children born blind and deaf burst into radiant grins, although they have never seen this facial gesture in those around them.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    Perhaps it is the eye—not the heart, the genitals, or the brain—that is the initial organ of romance, for the gaze (or stare) often triggers the human smile.
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    as Plato aptly wrote in The Symposium: “The God of love lives in a state of need.”
  • 302 Rizvi Khadijahas quoted2 years ago
    Journalist: Why do you only write about relationships?
    Nora Ephron:Is there something else?
  • Mónica Angeleshas quoted4 years ago
    Perhaps it is the eye—not the heart, the genitals, or the brain—that is the initial organ of romance, for the gaze (or stare) often triggers the human smile
  • Aura Morenohas quoted4 years ago
    A universal pattern of female flirting emerged. Women from places as different as the jungles of Amazonia, the salons of Paris, and the highlands of New Guinea apparently flirt with the same sequence of expressions.
  • Aura Morenohas quoted4 years ago
    Some 85% of cultures permit a man to have several wives,
  • Мариhas quoted6 years ago
    I was recently traveling in the highlands of New Guinea in the back of a pickup truck, talking with a man who had three wives. I asked him how many wives he would like to have. There was a pause as he rubbed his chin. I wondered: Would he say five? Ten? Twenty-five wives? He leaned toward me and whispered: None
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