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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

When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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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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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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