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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Melinda Gates

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
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
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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Different Family Investment Man Time 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
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
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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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
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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Boredom Children Education Stay Thinking Time Understand
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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Appearance Born Control Country Global People
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

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