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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Melinda Gates

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATES

Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATES

Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
MELINDA GATES

Growth Investment People Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATES

Financial Help People Strategy
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
MELINDA GATES

Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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.
MELINDA GATES

Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATES

Born Determination Future Woman
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATES

Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
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?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATES

Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide

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