Quotes by Meryl Streep

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

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

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

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

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"I go to a lot of movies where people are all around me laughing, and I feel like I'm from outer space because I find it dangerous and stupid and horrible and degrading to women and all these things."

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