Joanna Coles Quotes

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.

- Joanna Coles

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them.

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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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'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.

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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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People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

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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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We have a generation of women who think that they can just have IVF, and everything will be fine. The odds are against you once you start having IVF, and the odds are against you over the age of 35. And to pretend that it's easy to have a baby in your 40s or 50s is - it's just selling women a false dream.

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It is extremely frustrating if you are in your 20s and you want to embark on having a family and you're struggling to meet people.

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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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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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You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.

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I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.

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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 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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We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.

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I remember once when I was working on a magazine, and one of the male editors was going on a field trip with one of his sons. The office was full of, 'He's such a good dad,' whereas I came in late from a doctor's appointment for one of my children and was asked, 'Where were you? You'll need to make up the time.'

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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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If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.

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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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The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.

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Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work. There are more points of entry for them to complain to.

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Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.

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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 was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.

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It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.

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I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.

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I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.

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I started at 'The Daily Telegraph' as a daily news reporter. I moved then to 'The Guardian,' and then I moved to New York as the correspondent for 'The Guardian,' moved to 'The Times of London.' And really, it was the best job you could imagine. You could cover any story you wanted in America.

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I think the single most important thing for a job interview is leave the phone in your bag and do not look at it for 20 minutes.

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Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

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Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest?

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Up until the age of 13, girls are confident, and they feel like they can conquer the world. Then adolescence sets in, and girls lose their confidence. And 'Seventeen' is really about them taking an hour out of their month, unplugging, lying on their bed, and reading a magazine that believes in them.

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I don't really have an average day, and that works for me. If I knew what I had to do ahead of time, I would be so depressed. I love the unexpected. I love change. I love things being thrown at me.

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It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.

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It was quite jarring to go from newspapers to magazines, and the reason I did it was because I had my second son, and with my second child, I just thought, 'I can't travel at will,' which you really need to be able to do. And so I had a sort of slow realization that I could no longer do the job that I loved.

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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 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 was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.

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The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.

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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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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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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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Contraception is a couple's issue.

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Get out there and meet people, and that will lead to meeting other people. Look around; see if there's anyone hiding in plain sight. There may be friends that become more than friends.

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When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.

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The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.

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There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

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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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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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My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.

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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 was a dogged reporter.

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I'm English. All we do is blush.

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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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You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with.

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I can't stress this enough: The single thing that will guarantee a happy, fulfilled, and calmer life is the quality of your human relationships, especially the people you love and who love you back.

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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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I think probably the moments of failure have been when I didn't really understand that other people were around to actually help me. There were moments when I thought I had to solve everything on my own, and I didn't realize that I had resources.

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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.

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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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On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

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When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.

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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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We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

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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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Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.

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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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Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

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I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

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I love to be underestimated.

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I always urge women to aim for the highest job they can get because you get more money and you get more support and you get more control, and those are the three things that actually make life easier.

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I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.

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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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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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I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties.

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I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.

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Print is not dead.

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It's fun working with smart, young women.

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Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.

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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 long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.

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I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

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I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for.

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Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.

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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 being a boss.

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