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.
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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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If 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.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Now, 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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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