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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.

Melinda Gates

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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Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
Everyone 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.
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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
That’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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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
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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Big Development Kill Problem Thinking World Yourself
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
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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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
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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Appearance Born Control Country Global People
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Development Investment Woman Women Empowerment World Yourself

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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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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