All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESBill [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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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.
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