51 Joanna Coles Quotes for You to Enjoy

Joanna Coles

American Editor

Born: Apr 20, 1962

Life Love People Think Women You

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

People Made Meet Apps Easier Connect Harder

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. Joanna Coles

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

Love You Important Nothing Back More Than Loves Who

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

Women Problem Understanding East No Problem Mascara Women Are Middle Middle East Interested

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. Joanna Coles

You Conversation People Fluid Other Else Telephone Easier Out Find Someone Voice Advantage Calls Because Hear Text Get Quite Whether Avoid Each Awkward Interrupt Peculiar

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

Women Like Particularly Industry Women Are Junior Senior Staff Mean

I don't get my ideas from reading other people. Joanna Coles

People Reading Other Ideas Get

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!' Joanna Coles

I was a dogged reporter. Joanna Coles

Dogged Reporter

Having diverse leadership means there are more voices in the room, and there are more different points of entry for people who are being bullied or abused at work. There are more points of entry for them to complain to. Joanna Coles

Work Leadership People Complain Diverse Having More Voices Points Entry Abuse Bullied Being Different Room Them Means Who

You don't have to be in love all the time, but you need to be surrounded by people you have a genuine connection with. Joanna Coles

Love Time You People Genuine Surrounded Connection Need

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

World Lifeline Up Get Wanted Growing Growing Up

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

You People Long Curiosity Interested Forward Things

You're only worth as much to one employer as you are to another. Joanna Coles

You Worth Only Employer Another Much

At the age of 10, I had my first piece published in what was known as the 'Junior Post,' which was part of the 'Yorkshire Post,' and it was just for kids. I read it every week. And I got paid for it. So I thought... 'I can actually do this. I can get paid to write, and this is going to be fine.' I wrote several pieces for them. Joanna Coles

Age Post Thought First Every Several Kids Fine Week Write Had Part Piece Pieces Wrote Read Known Got Junior Get Yorkshire Going Just Which Them Paid Published Actually

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. Joanna Coles

Make a list of all the people in your life, and rate them in terms of energy in, energy out. Is there anyone in your life right now who is blocking your love quest? Joanna Coles

Life Love People Energy Out Rate Terms Make Blocking Quest List Anyone Them Your Who Now Right

I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second. Joanna Coles

Son First Thomas Had Hugo Second

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. Joanna Coles

Technology Women Commitment Sometimes Young Changes Our Intimacy Hundreds Rapid Cosmopolitan About Taking New Talk Editor Role New Technology Romantic Place Young Women Search Lives Plays

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. Joanna Coles

Confidence Age World Girl Reading Lose Sets Lying Seventeen Month Out Magazine About Adolescence Taking Feel Hour Like Until Bed Up Confident Them Then Really Conquer Believes

I love to be underestimated. Joanna Coles

Love Underestimated

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. Joanna Coles

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