Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Housework 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.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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