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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?

Melinda Gates

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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