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

Melinda Gates

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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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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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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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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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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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