Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
MELINDA GATESMen 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.
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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.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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.
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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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