Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESYou are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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.
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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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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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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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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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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 woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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