Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESWhen 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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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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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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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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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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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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