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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

As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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.
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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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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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