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 GATESIf you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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.
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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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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 are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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