If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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