It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.
— Joanna Coles
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.
I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for.
My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.
If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.
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?
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.
You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.
Growing up, 'Cosmo' was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn't get to yet.
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.
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.
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.
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!'
Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.
When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.
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.
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.
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.
I love to be underestimated.
With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
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.
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.
The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.
I was a dogged reporter.
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.
I don't get my ideas from reading other people.
I don't like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.
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.
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.
As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I was a member of the young liberals, the young conservatives, and young Labour, according to who gave the best parties.
Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.
I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.
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.
