Love Quote by Meryl Streep

Streep’s line reads like a quiet rebuke to the era’s favorite trap for ambitious women: pick a lane, then apologize for it. The phrase “holistic need” borrows the language of wellness and therapy, but she uses it to smuggle in something more defiant. Work isn’t framed as a greedy appetite or a résumé flex; it’s a bodily requirement, on the same level as intimacy. She’s denying the audience the moral satisfaction of watching her “choose” correctly.

The clever pivot is “huge ties of love.” Not “a family” in the Hallmark sense, not even “romance” as a single relationship, but ties plural: a web of attachment that can include partner, children, friends, collaborators. It’s an expansive definition that makes the usual binary (career vs. home) feel small, even a little unserious. She’s also implicitly insisting that love is not the opposite of work; it’s infrastructure. It’s what makes the intensity survivable.

“I can’t imagine eschewing one for the other” lands with the calm authority of someone who’s watched the culture demand sacrifice as proof of sincerity. The verb “eschewing” is almost prim, a reminder that renunciation is often performed for public approval. Streep refuses the performance. Coming from an actress whose career spans decades of both prestige and mass visibility, the subtext is practical as much as philosophical: longevity isn’t just talent, it’s permission. She’s arguing for a life designed without the false drama of trade-offs, and making that sound not radical, but normal.