Joanna Coles

“The biggest stress for me at New York Magazine was when I was a middle-of-the-pack editor, and I had no control over my own schedule.”

“I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.”

“Print is not dead.”

“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.”

“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?”

“I don't get my ideas from reading other people.”

“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.'”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I am deeply unsentimental.”

“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.”

“Snapchat is a really intimate medium.”

“Managers have to demand more of their HR departments, and they have to demand more of themselves. And we all have to be open to hiring people that don't look like us and that don't sound like us, and not find that threatening.”

“Once I got to the U.S., and I realized we weren't going to go back to Britain, I was ready to commit to starting a bigger life here.”