If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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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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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 learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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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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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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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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