It's important for me as an actor to be able to make a living.

There's tens of millions of families with single mothers who are living at 100 to 200 percent below the poverty level and these are not women that are on welfare, these are working women. How different would there life be if they're making an extra 40 to 60 cents to the dollar. We can't do this to our kids anymore.

To really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Just being an actress in Hollywood is very vulnerable. To let all these other people decide whether you're really of value or not, you have to really be strong to know that, of course, they have a right to their opinion, but their opinion doesn't matter as far as yourself.

When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

The average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.

The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.

I hope some of your DNA transferred to me.