This act of empathy, that women go through from the time we're little girls - we read all of literature, all of history, it's really about boys, most of it. But I can feel more like Peter Pan than Tinker Bell, or like Wendy. I wanted to be Tom Sawyer, not Becky. And we're so used to that act of empathizing with the protagonist of a male-driven plot. I mean, that's what we've done all our lives. You read history, you read great literature, Shakespeare, it's all fellas, you know?
Meryl StreepPeople say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.
Meryl StreepI 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