Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
Meryl StreepPut blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.
Meryl StreepThis is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.
Meryl StreepWe don't like to talk about that in America, but there are classes in America. And she [Julia Child] was of a class of women who were wealthy, privately educated, went to Smith, moved in that sort of circle. She was conscripted into the OSS, which is the early CIA, which was all filled with Yalies and Princeton and Harvard people and a few women who were typing mostly but also had something to do.
Meryl Streep