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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.

Melinda Gates

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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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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 invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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