Joanna Coles

“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 bes...”

“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 informatio...”

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

“Contraception is a couple's issue.”

“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 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 Lond...”

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

“I was a dogged reporter.”

“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.”

“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 b...”

“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.”

“I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.”

“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 y...”

“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 l...”

“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 yo...”

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

“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 defens...”

“You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.”

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