As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESWomen speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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