If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATESHelping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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