If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATESI learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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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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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 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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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