Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATESOur desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATESWhen we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATESThe biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
MELINDA GATESOur economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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.
MELINDA GATESA woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
MELINDA GATESIn 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.
MELINDA GATESThat’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
MELINDA GATESMen 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.
MELINDA GATESYou 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.
MELINDA GATESWomen 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.
MELINDA GATESIf we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESAny 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.
MELINDA GATESTake 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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