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.
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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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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.
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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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