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.
MELINDA GATESWhen we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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