Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
MELINDA GATESWomen speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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