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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

Melinda Gates

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value

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