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.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Dating
Dating apps are brilliant for expanding your actual social network, which leads you to meet other people.Collection: Dating
You need a nutritional love diet. Don't put the junk stuff in your body - it's not going to do you any good.Collection: Diet
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.Collection: Finance
As long as you're interested in people and things, that curiosity propels you forward.
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.
I don't like the word 'juggling' or 'work-life balance.' You prioritize.
We have enormous appetites for both food and love, and yet there's junk food and also junk love.
Print is not dead.
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 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?'
I love 'Cosmo,' but I gave it everything I had.
I can't spend any time cultivating celebrity.
Obsessing about my image - that's not my shtick.
I probably don't conform to most people's idea of a fashion editor.
I clean out the cat tray like everyone else.
I have a real challenge of finding dog-walking shoes.
I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.
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.
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.
I am deeply unsentimental.
Maybe we need to shelter ourselves so we see the beautiful.
I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.
I am who I am.
'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.
On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.
When you have children is the most important choice affecting your life.
I started in journalism: my first magazine, I developed when I was 10. I sent it round to the neighbors. I also sent it to the Queen of England.
I'm just super nosy, I love trying to understand what's going on.
One of the things about being online is it's hard to forget people, so it's very easy to stalk an ex, it's very easy to follow what people are doing. It's almost impossible to forget them.
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.
I'm English. All we do is blush.
Snapchat is a really intimate medium.
I'm sure 'Cosmo' will get involved with virtual reality at some point.
You can't back-engineer a brand.
I was precocious, so I began reading 'Cosmo' when I was 12.
I like being a boss.
It's fun working with smart, young women.
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.
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.'
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.
Get out there and meet people, and that will lead to meeting other people. Look around; see if there's anyone hiding in plain sight. There may be friends that become more than friends.
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.
Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.
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.
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.
Nothing's more important than who you love and who loves you back.
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.
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.