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.
MELINDA GATESNow, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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