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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.

Melinda Gates

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Children Different Sick Vaccine
If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine

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