Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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