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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.

Melinda Gates

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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