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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.

Melinda Gates

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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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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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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 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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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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