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.

Joanna Coles

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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.

Joanna Coles

you quality love life

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.

Joanna Coles

you together life people

People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the best art - or falling out of love or being heartbroken - drives all the best books, drives all the best music, and yet we've sort of stopped talking about it.

Joanna Coles

best music love art

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

Joanna Coles

you angry sound attitude

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.

Joanna Coles

good you good-times together

I have green eyes, which are actually quite difficult to find makeup for.

Joanna Coles

eyes difficult makeup green

Love and food are very similar in many ways. We can't survive without them, and they bring us great joy, and just as there is junk food, and you can become obese, there's also junk love.

Joanna Coles

great you food love

I'm English. All we do is blush.

Joanna Coles

blush english

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

Joanna Coles

maybe need see beautiful

I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.

Joanna Coles

work home time life

It's really important to be surrounded by people who are going to lift you up.

Joanna Coles

surrounded you important people

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.

Joanna Coles

someone you communication positive

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.

Joanna Coles

best you information problem

There's nothing more mainstream than equal pay for equal work. I mean, it's completely obvious that's what feminism should be for, and for women's right to choose what happens to their own bodies.

Joanna Coles

choose nothing women work

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

Joanna Coles

both junk-food food love

I think most people know when they're in a toxic relationship - it requires an enormous amount of effort to keep it going, and you don't get what you want from it.

Joanna Coles

you effort relationship people

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

Joanna Coles

super been never boss

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.

Joanna Coles

free like always proud

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?'

Joanna Coles

down you positive way

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

Joanna Coles

gave i-love everything love