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.
MELINDA GATESYou 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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Any 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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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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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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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