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

Melinda Gates

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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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