One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESOur economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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