Quotes by Meryl Streep

Theres no road map on how to raise a family: its always an enormous negotiation.

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.

Its amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

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

I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.