Author: Meryl Streep

Quotes

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

- Meryl Streep

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.

- Meryl Streep

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

- Meryl Streep

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

- Meryl Streep

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too.

- Meryl Streep

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.

- Meryl Streep

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

- Meryl Streep

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

- Meryl Streep

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation.

- Meryl Streep

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