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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.

Melinda Gates

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
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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