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

Melinda Gates

I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman
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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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
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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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
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
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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
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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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
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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College Goal Goodness
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
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics

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