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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.

Melinda Gates

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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 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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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