The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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