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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.

Melinda Gates

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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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