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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

Melinda Gates

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
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATES

Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
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
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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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College Goal Goodness
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATES

Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATES

Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman

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