Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESI learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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