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.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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