Top 44 Joanna Coles Quotes

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

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

I don’t get my ideas from reading other people.

It’s fun working with smart, young women.

I was precocious, so I began reading ‘Cosmo’ when I was 12.

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.

I was a dogged reporter.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I’ve had several female bosses. They’ve all been super supportive.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Print is not dead.

I can’t spend any time cultivating celebrity.

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

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.’

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.

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.

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

I’m English. All we do is blush.

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.

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

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.

You can’t back-engineer a brand.

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.

With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I’m always exploring. I like the concept of change.

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.

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’m sure ‘Cosmo’ will get involved with virtual reality at some point.

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.