I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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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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