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

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.
MELINDA GATES

Boredom Children Education Stay Thinking Time Understand
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.
MELINDA GATES

Education Home Reading Woman
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
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATES

Education Fall Notice System Wrong
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
MELINDA GATES

Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
MELINDA GATES

Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
MELINDA GATES

Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
MELINDA GATES

Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Potential Woman
Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
MELINDA GATES

Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself

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