Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
MELINDA GATESDeep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
MELINDA GATESOne life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
MELINDA GATESOur economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATESPoverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATESWomen 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 GATESYou 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.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
MELINDA GATESIf you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
MELINDA GATESAny 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.
MELINDA GATESTake 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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