Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESA woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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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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