Cosmo never speaks to my life. Its surveys always ask questions like How would you react if your lover announced he was taking a job in Alaska? and jumping for joy is never one of the options. Move to Alaska? Hell, my lover was thirty-seven and hadn't moved away from home yet. Where were the questions relevant to my life?
Quotes about cosmo (16 Quotes)
Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anything they want. But it also acknowledges that while work is important, men are, too. The Cosmo girl absolutely loves men
During Gurley Brown's time, the Cosmo reader was probably gutsier in her imagination than she was in her real life, ... What she wants are the strategies that allow her to carve out a life for herself, but with all the nuances.
Just as there were excesses at the beginning -- the early feminists tried to rule out a lot of the sexuality and frivolity and, you know, they demonized Barbie and Cosmo girl in high heels and shopping and a lot of the fun stuff women like -- at the end, you know, they are equally sort of into conformity, but completely the opposite way,
It's my sick fantasy to be a Cosmo cover.
I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.
I think it is a kind of subject matter that needed exploring ... the identity of the single woman had not caught up with what was happening. Which was that a lot of perfectly attractive, intelligent, nice, normal girls in their 30s had decided not to get married for very good reasons. And they were paralyzed somewhere between the Cosmo girls, you know with the good life and their own flat and car and independence and lots of fun, and haunted by this horrible image of ... the tragic spinster who ends up dying alone and being found three weeks later half-eaten by a dog.
There's something you ought to know. I slept with Cosmo last night.
Ms. did well at the height of the feminist movement and then it faded. Ms. was aimed at a need, that women needed to prove themselves. Cosmo is not something women need. It's something women desire.
Readers always tell us that they can't get enough of the magazine so we're delighted to offer them an around-the-clock Cosmo fix. We are bringing the pages of the magazine to life so expect fun, irreverent shows covering everything a girl loves.
In the eight years I've been editor of 'Cosmo' I've learned so much and tried to use those lessons in my own life.
What Cosmo did was report on what was true out in the real world, but was never reported before. Some of the principles were based on 'Sex and the Single Girl,' which said that if you're single and 33, you don't have to go to the Grand Canyon and throw yourself in.
Last year we received such an overwhelming response from our readers when we saluted all the Fun Fearless Males we love and admire. We decided to do it again this year. We chose these hot guys because they're the perfect combination of smarts, wit, talent, and good looks--traits every Cosmo girl looks for in a man.
Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo After they laughed at me a few times they began requesting the hillbilly stuff and enjoyed dancing to it.
If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind
Certainly Vogue was the total seal of approval, but Cosmo was up there. You had those and your cosmetics contract, and you were all set.