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Melinda Gates

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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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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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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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