Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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