Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESWomen speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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.
MELINDA GATESWe have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATESHaving 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.
MELINDA GATESAll lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESAbortion 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 GATESPoverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESYou can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATESBill [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.
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESAny 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 GATESMy 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.
MELINDA GATESI felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATESOne life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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