My family really does come first. It always did and always will. – Meryl Streep
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. – Meryl Streep

My family really does come first. It always did and always will. – Meryl Streep
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy. – Meryl Streep
I dont know why I dont watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isnt enough time in life. – Meryl Streep
I didnt have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. – Meryl Streep
The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that cant so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care? – Terry Pratchett
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)