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“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.”
“I was 36 when I had my first son, Thomas, and 39 when I had Hugo, my second.”
“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.”
“Sometimes the hardest decision is to say no to something, and I think when you're less confident or when you're younger, you say yes to everything, and as you get older, you realise you don't need to.”
“The transition of a desk job, having to be in the office at the same time every day, I found super hard.”
“I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.”
“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.”
“I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.”
“I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Contraception is a couple's issue.”
“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 love to be underestimated.”
“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.”
“I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.”
“As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.”
“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 less frightening than nothing.”
“I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.”