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MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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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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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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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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