All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESI 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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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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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