Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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