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.
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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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 and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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?
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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