Kate White
Kate White
Kate Whiteis an American writer, magazine editor, and speaker. From 1998 to 2012, she served as the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan. She is the author of ten novels: six books in the Bailey Weggins mystery series, and four stand-alone novels of suspense, including the upcoming The Wrong Man. Kate has also written four non-fiction books with business advice for women, including I Shouldn't Be Telling You This. Her books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. She is...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 September 1951
Kate White quotes about
sex coffee average
If you had a daily printout from the brain of an average twenty-four-year-old male, it would probably go like this: sex, need coffee, sex, traffic, sex, sex, what an asshole, sex, ham sandwich, sex, sex, etc
scary change-is-good
Change is scary but almost all change is good.
figuring interested relationships written
We've always written a lot about relationships, but our reader's particularly interested in figuring him out,
aspect baby boomers gen healthy people readers reassuring taught
We've always been reassuring about sex. We've taught our readers about sex. I know people sometimes feel uncomfortable with it. But I try to tell baby boomers that Gen X and Gen Y are really comfortable with sex. ... It's just a wonderful, healthy aspect of life.
babies except interested might reader single
We try not to be all things to all women. You'll never find anything about babies in our magazine, except what a single reader might be interested in.
women
We try not to be all things to all women,
baby boomers grind seem women
Women now don't want to be in the grind. The baby boomers made the grind seem unappealing.
biggest brad celebrity competing dealing force
Today, the biggest force everyone is dealing with is celebrity magazines. You're not competing with other people's numbers, you're competing with Brad and Angelina and babies.
public
The public is very forgiving. And very intrigued. It's not like, 'Oh no Colin, not you!
guinness heard record yesterday
We only told her yesterday she was the new Guinness world record holder. We hadn't heard of her before.
hip outfit push
You'll say that outfit could be me on a day I really push it. It's a little out there, a little sexy, hip and in fashion, but it's achievable.
authentic earnest magazines voice
Cosmo's always had a really authentic voice -- there's no B.S.. We don't have that earnest voice that a lot of women's magazines do.