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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
MELINDA GATES

Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate Yourself
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 GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
In 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.
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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
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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Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
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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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
MELINDA GATES

Growth Investment People Woman
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
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.
MELINDA GATES

Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATES

Equality Live One Liner Value
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATES

Care Live Mom Myself Save
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATES

Build Economy Ourselves Woman

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