We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
MELINDA GATESIt’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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