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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.

Melinda Gates

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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Education Home Reading Woman
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
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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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman 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
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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College Goal Goodness
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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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
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.
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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Date Decision Goodness Partner
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
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

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