Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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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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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 care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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