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.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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All lives have an equal value.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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