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

Melinda Gates

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Development Difference Government Life Save
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
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
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself

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