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.
MELINDA GATESI learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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