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.
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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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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