Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESIf you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
MELINDA GATESI realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATESIn different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
MELINDA GATESI think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
MELINDA GATESI felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATESNow, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
MELINDA GATESBirth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
MELINDA GATESEveryone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
MELINDA GATESYou 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.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATESA woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
MELINDA GATESI learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATESAbortion 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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