Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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.
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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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 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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