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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
MELINDA GATES

Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
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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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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College Goal Goodness
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Development Difference Government Life Save
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

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