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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

I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
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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Children Decision Family Food Health Herself Home Revolution Woman
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine 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
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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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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