I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
MELINDA GATESNow, 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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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All lives have an equal value.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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