The 66-year-old Into The Woods star, who has grown up children Mamie, Grace, Louisa and Henry with husband Don Gummer while successfully balancing her award-winning career, admits she sometimes feels a sense of guilt, reported Female First. "Every day is some kind of compromise if you're a working woman. There's a different set of expectations, and there's a guilt that's self-generated and condoned in the larger society.

"In every profession, men are held to a completely different standard of parenthood," she said. Streep also confessed she feels a sense of responsibility when it comes to choosing what roles to accept as it does have an impact in the society