I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATESHousework 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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