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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

Melinda Gates

If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Education Home Reading 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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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Philanthropy 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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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.
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Children Different Sick Vaccine
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.

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