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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Melinda Gates

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
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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Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Education Home Reading Woman
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
Everyone 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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine

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