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.
MELINDA GATESIf you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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