Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Joanna Coles

You can't back-engineer a brand.

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

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?'

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 am deeply unsentimental.

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

I'm English. All we do is blush.

Print is not dead.

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.

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

I like being a boss.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

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

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

I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.

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.

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!'

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

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

I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.

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 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.

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

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'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.

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.

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

It's fun working with smart, young women.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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 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 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.

Contraception is a couple's issue.

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

I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.

I think that women's lives are multilayered.

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.