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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"

"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves."

"Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate."

"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."

"We need the children of Indonesia and the Philippines to manufacture our freedom of choice."

"You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls - it's a bit scary, actually."

"Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children."

"Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
Explore more quotes by Meryl Streep

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

"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."

"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."

"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."
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