All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESPhilanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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.
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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.
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