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Jillian Quint

Brooklyn

Editor-in-Chief at PureWow

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  • 1 week ago | purewow.com | Jillian Quint

    booksAccording to a person who likes nothing more than reading on a beachPureWow editors select every item that appears on this page, and some items may be gifted to us. Additionally, PureWow may earn compensation through affiliate links within the story. All prices are accurate upon date of publish. You can learn more about the affiliate process here.

  • 1 week ago | flipboard.com | Jillian Quint

    1 hour agoThe Best Historical Fiction Books You Haven’t ReadSo, how many of you are reading this post to see if you have in fact read any of the books mentioned in it? Welcome! Either you have excellent taste, …1 hour agoThe Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) - Movie ReviewThe Ballad of Wallis Island, 2025. Directed by James Griffiths.

  • 3 weeks ago | purewow.com | Jillian Quint

    familyLet’s normalize women’s sportsDasha Burobina for PureWow/Getty ImagesHaving a daughter is like having a mirror constantly held up to your own perverse relationship with femininity. “Mommy, why are you always fixing your hair?” “Mommy, why do you say you hate math?” We want to do better than the faux ‘90s and early aughts Girl Power we were spoon-fed (Charlie, how your angels get down like that!), but we’re also stuck with the tropes that raised us. Take sports.

  • 3 weeks ago | sports.yahoo.com | Jillian Quint

    Having a daughter is like having a mirror constantly held up to your own perverse relationship with femininity. “Mommy, why are you always fixing your hair?” “Mommy, why do you say you hate math?” We want to do better than the faux ‘90s and early aughts Girl Power we were spoon-fed (Charlie, how your angels get down like that!), but we’re also stuck with the tropes that raised us. Take sports. We were told to play them, namely to stay slim and have fodder for our college applications.

  • 3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jillian Quint

    Can we all agree that going to the pediatric dentist has gotten way better than when we were kids? Nowadays, the fluoride comes in watermelon flavor, they stream Descendants on the ceiling and very few children are being told they have to wear headgear to sleepover parties for the duration of middle school. And yet, the biggest improvement just might be the shift to more discrete forms of braces.