Opinions took a back seat. Opinions were not attractive. This is stuff I remember thinking when I was quite young. At my house … you learned to rise above the contending voices, but I recognized early on that that wasn’t attractive on a date. Now, I don’t think [girls] don’t do that as much. I have three daughters, and they’re all getting along in life on their own terms. And I don’t feel they make those accommodations quite in the way we did. But this was something people did.
— Meryl Streep, on changing her behavior as a teenager to get dates and be popular
