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.
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.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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.
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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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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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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 care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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