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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?

Patricia Arquette

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Patricia Arquette
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: April 8
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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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The good news is that we have a very active part of America that wants some radical progress.
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When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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You want your partner to objectify you.
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I think there can always be beauty in struggle.
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To be a woman in law enforcement on television, I think, is sort of important. It's a powerful position for a woman to be in, but also to be looking at these new technologies, exploring these new technologies.
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The United States has more women and girls in prison than any other industrialized nation on earth.
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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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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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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I find that men are far more vain than women.
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I'm the only nerd with a piece of paper.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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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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Television allows you to actually make a living, feed your children, send them to college and important significant things. To have the ability, the luxury, to make the choices of doing little movies where people cannot pay you.
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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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