I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
— Joanna Coles
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's fun working with smart, young women.
You can't back-engineer a brand.
I'm English. All we do is blush.
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.
I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.
'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.
I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
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.
I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.
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?'
I think that women's lives are multilayered.
Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.
Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.
Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.
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.'
I like being a boss.
I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.
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.
I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.
When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.
I am who I am.
Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.
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.
I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.
I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.
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.
Contraception is a couple's issue.
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.
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.
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.
We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.
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.
I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
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.
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.
On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.
Print is not dead.
I am deeply unsentimental.
I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.
I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.
I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.
