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.
MELINDA GATESNow we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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