All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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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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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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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that 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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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