What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATESOne life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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?
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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