black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Melinda Gates

One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATES

Life Value Worth
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.
MELINDA GATES

Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATES

Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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.
MELINDA GATES

Appearance Born Control Country Global People
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?’
MELINDA GATES

Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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.
MELINDA GATES

Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATES

Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATES

Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
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 GATES

Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATES

Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Development Difference Government Life Save
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.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Melinda Gates Quotes