"There’s no road map on how to raise a family: it’s always an enormous negotiation." ― Meryl Streep Topic(s): Family More From Meryl Streep "Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too." "Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials." "Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they’re men." More In Family "You have to defend your honor. And your family."― Suzanne Vega "The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum."― Christopher Lasch "I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it’s my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family."― Elena Anaya