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?’
MELINDA GATESYou can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
-
-
It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
MELINDA GATES -
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATES -
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATES -
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
MELINDA GATES -
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES -
Any 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 GATES -
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
MELINDA GATES -
When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATES -
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
MELINDA GATES -
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATES -
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
MELINDA GATES -
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
MELINDA GATES -
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
MELINDA GATES -
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATES -
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATES