Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESThe 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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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