Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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All lives have an equal value.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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 you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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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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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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