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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
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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Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
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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Better Live Reality Solution Understand Woman
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
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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Difficult Remark Search Strength Strong Voice Woman
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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Boredom Children Education Stay Thinking Time Understand
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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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
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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Education Home Reading Woman
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
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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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
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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Appearance Born Control Country Global People
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself

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