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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

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
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATES

Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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
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

College Goal Goodness
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
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 went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
MELINDA GATES

Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
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.
MELINDA GATES

Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATES

Development Global Investment Powerful Woman 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
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATES

Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATES

Born Determination Future Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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

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.

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