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.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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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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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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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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