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.
MELINDA GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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