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I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
Feminism means, basically, are you in favor of equal opportunities for men and women? It's hard to argue with that.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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!'
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
If you keep dating and keep out there, you keep a higher level of hope, and also, your skills at doing it improve because you're doing it more often, and you are bringing less anxiety to the table.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
I look at my time on this earth as social anthropology, at home and in work life.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
If you're in journalism, the U.S. - and New York City in particular - is an exciting place to work.
Quote by -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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
My favorite meal would be a big piece of steak with salad and then Brussels sprouts and Jerusalem artichokes.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
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.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
With beauty, I think one never finishes it. I'm always exploring. I like the concept of change.
Quote by -Joanna Coles
It's a great thing to be underestimated because it puts off your rival or enemy - they're not on their full game if they underestimate you.
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If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Quote by -John Irving
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!
Quote by -John Irving
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
Quote by -John Irving
If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.
Quote by -John Irving
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.
Quote by -John Irving
To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.
Quote by -John Irving
There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.
Quote by -John Irving
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
Quote by -John Irving
You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
Quote by -John Irving
I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful. I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs.
Quote by -John Irving
'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
Quote by -John Irving
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost as central to the novel as a major minor character, the passage of time and its effect on the characters in the story.
Quote by -John Irving
I believe in plot, in development of character, in the effect of the passage of time, in a good story - better than something you might find in the newspaper. And I believe a novel should be as complicated and involved as you're capable of making it.
Quote by -John Irving
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.
Quote by -John Irving
I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.
Quote by -John Irving
I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
Quote by -John Irving
I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
Quote by -John Irving
My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
Quote by -John Irving