What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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