There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. -Meryl Streep Family
Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength? -Meryl Streep Strength
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. -Meryl Streep Respect
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. -Meryl Streep Parenting
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time. -Meryl Streep Time
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. -Meryl Streep Imagination
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. -Meryl Streep Movies
It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great. -Meryl Streep Amazing