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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.

Melinda Gates

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATES

Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
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.
MELINDA GATES

Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
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 GATES

Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
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 GATES

Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
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.
MELINDA GATES

Education Home Reading Woman
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATES

Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
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.
MELINDA GATES

Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATES

Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
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?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATES

Born Determination Future Woman
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATES

Build Economy Ourselves Woman
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Potential Woman

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