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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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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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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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