Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATESWomen around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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