You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATESEveryone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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