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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
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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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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