Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESKids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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