Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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All lives have an equal value.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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