One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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