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 GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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