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MELINDA GATESGovernment 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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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