Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in 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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