Lauren Hutton Quotes

Lawyers are making more money than the cleanup folks are.

If you look back on professions, when they became undervalued and paid less, women tended to do better in them.

Basically, I think that most people either make too much money or not enough money. The jobs that are essential and important pay too little, and those that are essentially managerial pay far too much.

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.

Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.

As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.

Ask for $10,000 more than you think you are worth. That’s what the white boys do.

We have required under law for years that men and women get paid equal money for equal work. But we've faced challenges enforcing that law. There is still a large wage gap, and there are numerous instances of women holding jobs where they are not compensated fairly.

Unequal pay exists across most job sectors of our economy, even in nursing.

I thought it was ridiculous that I was being paid less than a cameraman, and I wanted to shame them. And I did.

I know what it feels like to be paid less - substantially less - than the male lawyer in the office next to me.

There are a lot of women who do a similar job to me who are paid a hell of a lot more... who are a lot posher than me.

People of my generation are used to collecting the heroic boys. And they're used to paying a lot of money for heroic boys. I don't make a third of what a guy would make.

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.

I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

I don't care about how much other actors get.

The fact that women are paid 73 cents on the dollar for work equivalent to work being done by men is unacceptable in America.

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all actors are overpaid. I beg to differ.

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead.

Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

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

You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so, that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government, that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.