When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATESWhen we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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