Quotes from Joanna Coles

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.

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.

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.

Snapchat is a really intimate medium.

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 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.

It's fun working with smart, young women.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

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

I love to be underestimated.

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 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.

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

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

My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.

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.

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!'