JOANNA COLES

I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Junk love are relationships in which you know you're not getting the emotional nutrition that you need. You're probably wasting emotional calories on people who aren't giving you enough back.

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.

'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.

It's very easy to imagine someone online in a positive way, but it's only when you sit down, with all five senses in play, that you can really tell, 'Do I find this person attractive?'

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.

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.

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 wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

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.

I was a dogged reporter.

You can't back-engineer a brand.

Price is nothing when it comes to fashion. It's all about the style.

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

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.

We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

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