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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

Melinda Gates

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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Country Myself Quality Woman World
Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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.
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Children Different Sick Vaccine
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
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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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide

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