Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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.
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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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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.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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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.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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 you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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You 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.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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