Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
MELINDA GATESWomen and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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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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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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