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

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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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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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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If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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 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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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