Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESWomen speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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All lives have an equal value.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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