As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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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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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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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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.
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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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