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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.

Melinda Gates

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
MELINDA GATES

Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
MELINDA GATES

Children Different Sick Vaccine
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
MELINDA GATES

Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
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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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
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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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work

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