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.
MELINDA GATESBirth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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 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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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That’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.
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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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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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