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.
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.
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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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You 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.
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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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 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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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