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Birth 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.

Melinda Gates

What great changes have not been ambitious?
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Birth 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.

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Birth 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.

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