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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Melinda Gates

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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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
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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All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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