All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATESIf 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 you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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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 you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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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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