Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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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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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 we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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