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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

What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATES

Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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.
MELINDA GATES

Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
MELINDA GATES

Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Development Difference Government Life Save
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATES

Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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

Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
MELINDA GATES

Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATES

Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATES

Life Value Worth
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.
MELINDA GATES

Children Different Sick Vaccine
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.
MELINDA GATES

Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel

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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