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Oprah: Which was 22 years ago!

Meryl: And I hold those 15 pounds against him!

Oprah: And you're still trying to get rid of them?

Meryl: I don't think I ever will. If I had to stand up right at this moment and turn around for everyone, maybe then I'd care. But the truth is that right now, I really don't care.

Oprah: You don't?

Meryl: No. This is how I look—and I'm happy with my life. Around the world, some women are living the way we were a hundred years ago in this country. It wasn't that long ago that women here couldn't own property or vote.

Julianne: When I think about Virginia Woolf wanting a room of her own, I know that's what most of us have. We have our own jobs. We can take care of ourselves and of our children. We're so lucky.

From the January 2003 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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