I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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