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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.

Melinda Gates

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
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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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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Education Home Reading Woman
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Children Growth Potential Woman
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
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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