Jason Merritt/Getty ImagesPatricia Arquette is not backing down.
The Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner spoke up for gender equality Sunday when she demanded equal pay for women in her acceptance speech. She's continued to advocate for the issue since, voicing her opinions to reporters as well as directly to the people on Twitter.
She went on quite the tweeting spree Monday and continued into Tuesday. "I don't care if people are pissed," she wrote. "The truth is that wage inequality adversely effects women."
That was only the beginning—here's what else the Boyhood star wrote about #EqualPay.
Did you know that a disproportionate amount of children living below the poverty line are from single female households? @ERAeducation
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015This is a call to action. Women are being discriminated and it is having serious consequences on them and their children.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015My children are not living below the poverty line. That does't mean I don't care about the kids who are. DO YOU? Then help their moms.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015How the wage gap hurts families-
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? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015.When people say that #Equalpay will devastate the economy they are so far off the mark.The money women make will go back into this economy.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015The #ERA was never passed.94% think it was, Women are left with a patchwork of leaders who believe in things like "legitimate rape".
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015Don't talk to me about privilege. As a kid I lived well below the poverty line. No matter where I am I won't forget women's struggle.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015I was a working single mom at 20. I know how hard it is to pay for diapers and food .Explain why women should be paid less?
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015Thank you to all who support women in this struggle for #Equalpay ! It has been a long time coming.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015The working poor women of this country have been asking for help for decades. If I have "privilege" or a voice I will shine a light on them.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015A lot of activists shook their heads and said yeah #Equalpay . Yeah, that sucks. No. It's devastating 2 poor women. It is DISCRIMINATION.
? Patricia Arquette (@PattyArquette) February 24, 2015These tweets stem from Arquette's original acceptance speech Sunday, which she dedicated "to every woman who gave birth to every tax payer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," adding, "It's time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America!"
Backstage, Arquette spoke about the issue at hand further, telling reporters, "It is time for women. Equal means equal."
"The truth is," she continued, "the older women get, the less money they make...the highest percentage of children living in poverty are female-headed households, and it's inexcusable that we go around the world and we talk about equal rights for women in other countries and we don't...have equal rights for women in America and we don't because when they wrote the Constitution, they didn't intend it for women."
"I think we need federal laws that are comprehensive; in different states, they have altogether thrown out the Fairness Voting Act," she went on. "People think we have equal rights; we won't until we pass a Constitutional Amendment in the United States of America where we pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment] once and for all and women have equal rights in America we won't have anything changed."