One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESIf you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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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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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Bill [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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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