I don't know what my image is. I went to France to publicize Marvin's Room, and one really smart young woman journalist said to me You know, what I told people I was going to interview Meryl Streep, they were so excited... all ze woman in my office, they love you so much. But ze men - they are afraid of you.

In: Liz Smith (1998). "The Meryl Streep Nobody Knows." Good Housekeeping, 227(3), September 1998, pp. 94-98; Cited in: Karen Hollinger The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star, Taylor & Francis, 2006, p. 71