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Patricia Arquette
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 8
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When I talk to different lawmakers, I'm trying to get them to reach across the aisle. There's legislation out there that would be helpful for women and families, but like with the Paycheck Fairness Act, legislation has been on the floor many times, and voted down many times. It's something we need to get passed already.
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The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues at play that really do affect women. It's time for all the women in America and all the women that love women and all the gay people and the people of color that we've all fought for to fight for us now.
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We have states that are throwing away the DNA of rapists. How can a woman be so inconsequential, that we as a nation aren't standing up and doing something about this intimate, violent act?
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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.
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When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.
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Mothering is one of the most beautiful experiences of my life.
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Older 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.
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Part of what I love about getting older is realizing that there's something perfect in the imperfection. It's all very human.
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There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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A lot of being an actor is being something that people imagine you to be.
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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.
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I grew up with a lot of spirituality. It wasn't necessarily organized religion, because my mom was Jewish and my dad was Muslim. I went to Catholic school. There was a lot of conversation about comparative religions.
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I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.
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There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.
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I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.
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There's something I really like about network TV. You have this humongous audience, tens of millions of people, and you really can be in a little hut in Thailand you really can be in the middle of an apartment in Dubai. There's something about public entertainment that I always liked. I like smaller movies, and I like public entertainment.
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If you emote in your performances, people feel connected to you as an emotional person, because that's how we communicate. That doesn't mean people know you. At a certain point, I think you have to just be your own self.
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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.
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