Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
MELINDA GATESWomen around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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