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.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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