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 GATESAny social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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 and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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