All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESHaving 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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.
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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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