Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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 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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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