We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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