Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
MELINDA GATESThat’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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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All lives have an equal value.
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If 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.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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I 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.
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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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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 set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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Birth 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.
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