The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
I have a theory that movies operate on the level of dreams, where you dream yourself.
I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other.
The quote above about patience is NOT MERYL STREEP’s– this quote is actually from the pen of Portuguese self-help author/life coach José Micard Teixeira. PLEASE REMOVE IT!!!!!
I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.
Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter.
There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation.
Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.
It’s amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.