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.
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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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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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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