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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Melinda Gates

Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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