Patricia Arquette Pushes for Wage Equality in Amazing Oscar Speech

Patricia Arquette sobered up real quick and won the Oscar tonight for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Boyhood. Here’s Arquette accepting her award and making a powerful plea for equal pay.

Arquette, reading from a sheet of paper, thanked all the necessary parties involved, including her “Boyhood family,” before heading into the home run portion:

“To every woman who gave birth to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else’s equal rights. It’s our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America.”