All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESIf you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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