All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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