What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESWe [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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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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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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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