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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

Melinda Gates

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
MELINDA GATES

Growth Investment People Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
MELINDA GATES

Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
What great changes have not been ambitious?
MELINDA GATES

Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
MELINDA GATES

Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
MELINDA GATES

Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATES

Born Determination Future Woman
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATES

Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
MELINDA GATES

Affective Believe Evidence Government Myself Place Start Work
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATES

Financial Help People Strategy
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATES

Care Live Mom Myself Save
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.
MELINDA GATES

Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Health Myself Problem Solution

Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.

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