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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATES

Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
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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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
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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Country Myself Quality Woman World
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
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?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value

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