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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Melinda Gates

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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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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.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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