"Meryl Streep’s image is composed of two distinct image clusters centered on her renown as a great actress and her reputation as a devoted wife and mother. A more muted aspect of her star persona – one that is often masked as merely an offshoot of her maternal devotion –is her social activism."
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Karen Hollinger, in The Actress: Hollywood Acting and the Female Star, Taylor & Francis, 2006,, p. 79
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