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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.

Melinda Gates

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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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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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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