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.
MELINDA GATESAll women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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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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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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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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