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?’
MELINDA GATESWomen and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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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 think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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