When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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.
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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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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