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.
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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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