Top 55 Joanna Coles Quotes

I’m just super nosy, I love trying to understand what’s going on.

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.

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.

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.

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

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

Obsessing about my image – that’s not my shtick.

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.

I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.

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.

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 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.

Contraception is a couple’s issue.

I love to be underestimated.

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.

I’m English. All we do is blush.

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.

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.

Print is not dead.

I am deeply unsentimental.

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.

Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It’s hard to argue with that.

I was a dogged reporter.

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.

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

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 look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

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.

You’re only worth as much to one employer as you are to another.

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 don’t get my ideas from reading other people.

Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It’s all about the style.

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

I don’t like the tropes, particularly in my industry, that the senior women are mean to the junior staff.

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

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 enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there’s junk food and also junk love.

I think that women’s lives are multilayered.

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

I like being a boss.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 clean out the cat tray like everyone else.

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

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

Growing up, ‘Cosmo’ was my lifeline to the world. A world that I wanted to be in but couldn’t get to yet.

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.

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.

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.