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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

Melinda Gates

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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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, 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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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