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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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.
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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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 desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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