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MELINDA GATESVaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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