There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep 1 Share Now -
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 2 Share Now -
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. - Meryl Streep 3 Share Now -
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now. - Meryl Streep 4 Share Now -
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter. - Meryl Streep 5 Share Now -
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 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
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 9 Share Now -
