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Melinda Gates

Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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 don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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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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