It concerns me when people frame the conversation about equal pay about the entertainment business. I don't want the wage gap issue to be viewed as this myopic problem, because it's not. It's in 98 percent of all businesses, and it's easy for people to dismiss this conversation when they think it's around white women entertainers. But this is about all women in America.
Patricia ArquetteThe average woman loses a half million dollars over a lifetime, but women with higher degrees lose $2 million over a lifetime.
Patricia ArquetteThere's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
Patricia ArquetteAs a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life.
Patricia ArquetteIf somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.
Patricia ArquetteI worry about women globally. When we talk about having a presidential candidate who would tear up the Paris accords, who doesn't believe in global warming, we know that poor women and children are going to be the most vulnerable when we start seeing rapid effects of global warming.
Patricia Arquette