Meryl Streep Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• It's bizarre that the produce manager is more important to my children's health than the pediatrician.

  Meryl Streep

  Funny Inspirational, Children, Food

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

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "Super trouper of the silver screen" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2008.

• Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Decision, World

• I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

• I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Husband, Joy

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, School, Weekend

• Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Remember, Sometimes

• When my children were very young and I was working I had someone cooking for me. I don't have a cook now, I haven't had one for a number of years and I do it myself. But when they were all little it was hard to pay attention to everyone's homework at the end of the day and make dinner.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Years, Numbers

  Source: the-talks.com

• People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, People, Things Change

• We 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

  Children, Class, Circles

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

• The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Thinking, Wife

• Well, she's so alive, Julia Child. And Margaret is so - is so designed. She's so intent upon making her point. That's the most important thing, is that she win the argument, and there is nothing that stands in the way of that train, you know. But Julia's just alive in front of you. That's part of why people loved her. They lived it with her. They breathed it with her. And the mistakes were all part of it.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Mistake, Winning

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

• If you raise children, you forget what age they are. I mean you don't literally forget, but you treat a 13-year-old like she's 10 and there's a big difference in those three years and they can't stand it. They want to be treated like they're 17 when they're 13. And sometimes you can't help thinking of them as if they were 10 or 10 months old because it's all so recent. So we do overprotect sometimes.

  Meryl Streep

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

• The movie that makes me cry is Anchorman. I have the biggest
  crush on Will Ferrel I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan Gosling could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child.
  Will Ferrell is a man.

  Meryl Streep

  Anchorman, Crush, Children

• Life is all about making choices and I'm very happy with mine. I have had a wonderful time raising four children and I've also been lucky to have the support of a wonderful husband.

  Meryl Streep

  Husband, Children, Choices

  Source: egomagazine.ae

• Listening is everything. Listening is the whole deal. That's what I think. And I mean that in terms of before you work, after you work, in between work, with your children, with your husband, with your friends, with your mother, with your father. It's everything. And it's where you learn everything.

  Meryl Streep

  Mother, Husband, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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