Joanna Coles Quotes
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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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You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.
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Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.
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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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Every time I've been offered a new job, I've automatically said, 'Oh, I don't think you want me for that job.' It's sort of a weird female - or, at least, it is in me - a weird female defense, when, in fact, what you want to do is scream, 'Hooray, I want to do this!'
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Contraception is a couple's issue.
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The treadmill won't run on its own; you have to put some work into this. If you're going to lose weight, you have to apply yourself.
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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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With experience, you suddenly realise you know how to do things or that you've done something like this before. And I think as you get more confident, you can sit back and try and weigh up the options of doing something or not doing something.
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My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.
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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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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
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I was a dogged reporter.
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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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Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.
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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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I love to be underestimated.
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Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.
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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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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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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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When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.
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I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.