Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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