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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

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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Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
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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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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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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College Goal Goodness
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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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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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
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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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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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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Country Myself Quality Woman World
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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