Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.

The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.'

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

The standard growth theory tells us that economic growth in per capita basis comes from mainly two sources: capital deepening and total factor productivity growth, or TFP growth.

You can have financial strength, professional strength, emotional strength but for me without spiritual strength none of the rest of it matters.

To think one film makes a career is ridiculous. It's important to keep perspective and do things other than for money.