I hope some of your DNA transferred to me. Patricia Arquette More Quotes by Patricia Arquette More Quotes From Patricia Arquette We 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 california men years Every day that a woman is making less money, that's less money she has in retirement. Patricia Arquette retirement I'm supporting anyone except Donald Trump. Patricia Arquette trump I 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. 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Patricia Arquette mom morning firsts I know I love my kids and I know they love me. I know I have beautiful friends and a great family, and I know I've been really blessed in this life. Patricia Arquette blessed beautiful kids 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. Patricia Arquette just-being strong people If 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 Arquette good-friend phones couple I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw. Patricia Arquette two kids people I'm very grateful to have my kids in my life; they're my greatest teachers. But to pretend it's always easy is just not really true. Patricia Arquette grateful teacher kids Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our children and to try to do all these different things. The expectations have changed drastically, and thank God they have. Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world. 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