Joanna Coles Quotes
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Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.
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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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I like to use exercise classes as a way of understanding what people are doing. I'm promiscuous in terms of exercise. You see what people are wearing. You see what people are responding to. You see what the music is they're listening to. An exercise class is social anthropology: what clothes people are wearing, what are the new sneakers.
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What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.
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You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.
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I was a dogged reporter.
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You can't back-engineer a brand.
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As the editor of 'Cosmopolitan,' I talk to hundreds of young women about the sometimes bewilderingly rapid changes taking place in our romantic lives and the role new technology plays in our search for intimacy and commitment.
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Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.
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When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.
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One of the things 'Cosmo' feels really strongly about is we need more women candidates running, and we need more women across the parties in D.C.
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Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.
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We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.
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I love to be underestimated.
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I grew up in Yorkshire, which is like the Texas of Britain. It's a proud free state and not always liked by the other counties in Britain.
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If you keep dating and keep out there, you keep a higher level of hope, and also, your skills at doing it improve because you're doing it more often, and you are bringing less anxiety to the table.
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Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.
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Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.
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I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.
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Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
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It might be that you never want to get married, or it might be that you really, really do. Either is fine. What's not fine is not to be honest about what you want.
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As I've gotten older, I've become much more effective at seeking and accepting help and bringing other people into the discussion. You start to understand that you can't control or fix everything on your own.
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Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.
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I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.