Joanna Coles

“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.”

“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.”

“When I was growing up as a child, a magazine, to me, was like a finger beckoning me to the future.”

“I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.”

“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 really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.”

“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.”

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

“Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.”

“I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.”

“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 information.”

“With experience, you suddenly realise you know how to do things or that you've done something like this before. And I think as you get more confident, you can sit back and try and weigh up the options of doing something or not doing something.”

“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!'”

“I was a dogged reporter.”

“With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.”

“I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.”

“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.”

“I grew up in the north of England - 200 miles north of London, in a relatively unsophisticated place. And I craved magazines as a way of finding out about the future, about the life that I wanted.”

“What, for me, was exciting about America was just this extraordinary, complex, difficult, fascinating country, and Britain can feel very small. London, in particular, feels small because everything happens there, so you have publishing, politics, you have finance; everything in Britain happens in London.”

“I have never had an unsupportive female boss. I've had several female bosses. They've all been super supportive.”