I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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