I don't think I would have had much of a career if I didn't have my son. Patricia Arquette More Quotes by Patricia Arquette More Quotes From Patricia Arquette To every woman who gave birth, to every citizen and taxpayer, it's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women of the United States of America! Patricia Arquette equality rights america Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human. Patricia Arquette getting-older realizing perfect I think there can always be beauty in struggle. Patricia Arquette struggle thinking When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted. Patricia Arquette whole-family males whole Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug. But then to really be known and really let someone else be known is very vulnerable. It's a weird thing. Patricia Arquette falling-in-love drug love-is We all have our own little thing, I think. Patricia Arquette little-things littles thinking I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like. Patricia Arquette goal want Of course, a lot of courtship and dating is about sexual attraction. If you're an attractive person, you have that sort of interest from people, whether you cater to it or not, but when you get older, that's not really the leading thing anymore. Patricia Arquette attractive dating people 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. Patricia Arquette mother life kids There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that. Patricia Arquette who-i-am self littles Things are very rudimentary as far as women's rights really go here, and it seems fine, but once you start scraping the surface, you start to see the ripple effect of how not having equal rights is so detrimental and how many mothers are single parents trying to raise their families. Patricia Arquette parent rights mother As a teenager, you have so much energy and hormones and you feel powerless in your life. Patricia Arquette hormones teenager energy Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life. Patricia Arquette beautiful-experiences mothering beautiful 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 Arquette equal-pay white thinking There was a time when only men could provide or work, and still a lot of countries are like that. But there's a price to be paid for that when you're expected to be the full-time caretaker and you're expected to be the full-time breadwinner. Patricia Arquette breadwinner men country Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world. Patricia Arquette rights world I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper. Patricia Arquette nerd pieces paper I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me. Patricia Arquette grew-up real hippie I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80. Patricia Arquette reviews bunch The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth. Patricia Arquette united-states girl earth
