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.
MELINDA GATESIt is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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All lives have an equal value.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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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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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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