Birdman and The Grand Budapest Hotel may have been the big winners of Oscars, but the Internet rates Patricia Arquette's Oscar acceptance speech more. Much more.
It was the Oscars moment that made Meryl Streep jump out of her seat and scream, "Yes! Yes" over and over again.
YES YES pic.twitter.com/2gzu2z5F1q #oscars2015
- Bec (@Brocklesnitch) February 23, 2015
Arquette, who won Best Supporting Actress for her role in Richard Linklater's Boyhood, used her acceptance speech to advocate equal pay for women.
"To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," said Arquette passionately.
"It's our time to have wage equality once and for all and equal rights for women in the United States of America!"
Watch the speech here:
The reaction on Twitter was equally as enthusiastic. There are more than 200k tweets about Patricia Arquette's speech. Here are some of the best ones:
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- Lena Dunham (@lenadunham) February 23, 2015
Jennifer Lopez and Meryl Streep whooping together in support of Patricia Arquette's feminist speech will play forever on a loop in my heart
- Melanie Lynskey (@melanielynskey) February 23, 2015
Yes #PatriciaArquette . Yes. Love you. http://t.co/2CQk7uIeBt pic.twitter.com/SOTZ6VKw1A
- Emma Watson (@EmWatson) February 23, 2015
#PatriciaArquette uses her moment on the #oscars stage to make a meaningful plea for "wage equality and equal rights for women".
- Noreen Flanagan (@Noreen_Flanagan) February 23, 2015
Patricia Arquette used Oscars speech to call for equal pay for women. Bravo Patricia Arquette! http://t.co/W2nirCEgBn
- taslima nasreen (@taslimanasreen) February 23, 2015
There were many politcians who loved it too
Thank you Patricia!! Our time in now.
- Stephanie Schriock (@Schriock1) February 23, 2015
.@PattyArquette: "It's our time to have wage equality and equal rights for women in America!" -- I couldn't agree more! #Oscars #equalpay
- Congressman Tim Ryan (@RepTimRyan) February 23, 2015
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