“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Meryl Streep“The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP's-- this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!”
Meryl Streep“I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.”
Meryl Streep“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.”
Meryl Streep“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“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“The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.”
Meryl Streep“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“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“There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.”
Meryl Streep“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