If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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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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