Joanna Coles Quotes
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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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I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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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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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 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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I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.
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Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
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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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I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.
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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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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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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
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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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With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.
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I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
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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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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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I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
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I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
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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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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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People avoid the telephone because it's easier to text. Calls can be awkward - you interrupt each other; you can't quite hear someone. But the advantage is you get to hear someone else's voice. You find out whether or not you can have a fluid conversation or if it's stilted and peculiar.
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I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for.
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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.