How Anna Holmes Did It

“If I were to do anything differently, I would believe in myself more in my 20s than I did. Maybe it’s part of being in your 20s. Maybe it was the fact that I’m female — I worked with a lot of women, but it was not lost on me that the most powerful people in publishing tend to be guys. The writers who were respected the most at EW were the dudes. Sometimes I felt like I was a bit of an impostor, because I was surrounded by people who went to Harvard or Princeton, and had these privileges I didn’t have, and who seemed to have an innate confidence that I never felt.”

-Anna Holmes, founding editor of Jezebel and Fusion’s most recent hire, talks to Jill Filipovic for Cosmopolitan’s “Get That Life” feature, admits to not having a five-year plan (“A lot of times I’m just like, ‘I’m going to move to Namibia and work with orphaned elephants. Fuck this stuff’”), calms your bones. [Cosmopolitan]