All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESI felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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