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.
MELINDA GATESAfter a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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 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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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