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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.

Melinda Gates

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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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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.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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