A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
MELINDA GATESHousework 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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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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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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