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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

You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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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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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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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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