I was a single mom at 20. A lot of choices came out of that. I've seen a lot of my friends be in relationships they didn't want to be in because they couldn't leave.
Patricia ArquetteThe average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.
Patricia ArquetteWhen the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.
Patricia ArquetteOlder homeless people are more likely to be women, because they don't have pensions and they are caretakers, so they withdraw from the workforce and end up having no pension if their husband leaves them, so the whole thing is just a nightmare.
Patricia ArquetteWe have Latinas in California making 55 cents on the dollar. Black women making 63 cents on the dollar. White women making 78 cents on the dollar. It doesn't change very much year by year, it might go up or down a penny, but oftentimes, the years that it goes up are the same years that men are making a little bit more. It's pretty much always in proportion.
Patricia Arquette