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Melinda Gates

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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Education Home Reading Woman
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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 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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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All lives have an equal value.

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