I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATESHelping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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 you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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All lives have an equal value.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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