Joanna Coles Quotes
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I am deeply unsentimental.
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I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
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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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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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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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I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.
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Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.
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It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'
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I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.
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I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.
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I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
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In the same way you pick idly at chips, promising this is literally your last one, you may be in a relationship that you know isn't going anywhere, but you're hungry for love, and it feels less frightening than nothing.
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I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.
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When I was growing up, Sunday lunch was my favorite time as a child. We would have a big Sunday English meal, and we would argue about things.
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I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
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I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.
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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.
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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
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With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.
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What magazines do is curate: we give accurate and trustworthy information. If you have a problem, it's very difficult to go to the web and get accurate information... magazines, at their best, should be an incredible voyage of discovery.
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I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for.
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Junk love are relationships in which you know you're not getting the emotional nutrition that you need. You're probably wasting emotional calories on people who aren't giving you enough back.
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One of the things about being online is it's hard to forget people, so it's very easy to stalk an ex, it's very easy to follow what people are doing. It's almost impossible to forget them.
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I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.