23 quotes
"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."
- Meryl Streep
Awareness
"Giving voice to characters that have no other voice—that’s the great worth of what we do."
- Meryl Streep
Compassion
"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."
- Meryl Streep
Self-awareness
"Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."
- Meryl Streep
Happiness
"The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself in the most vivid way you possibly can."
- Meryl Streep
Happiness
"The minute you start caring about what other people think, is the minute you stop being yourself."
- Meryl Streep
Self-confidence
"What makes you different or weird—that’s your strength."
- Meryl Streep
Self-confidence
"What makes you different or weird, that's your strength."
- Meryl Streep
Strength
"What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength."
- Meryl Streep
Strength
""It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.""
- Meryl Streep
Empowerment
"I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world."
- Meryl Streep
Empowerment
"The produce manager is more important to my children’s health than the pediatrician."
- Meryl Streep
Health
"It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it."
- Meryl Streep
Determination
"It’s amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it."
- Meryl Streep
Determination
""You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have.""
- Meryl Streep
Family
"You don’t have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have."
- Meryl Streep
Family
"You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you, and you already have."
- Meryl Streep
Family
"My advice: Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you put your hands on in the world."
- Meryl Streep
Self-improvement
"I want to feel my life while I’m in it."
- Meryl Streep
Presence
""The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.""
- Meryl Streep
Empathy
"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
- Meryl Streep
Empathy
"The greatest gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy."
- Meryl Streep
Empathy
"True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us."
- Meryl Streep
Independence