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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

Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
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
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATES

Build Economy Ourselves Woman
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATES

Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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Big Born Children Family Herself Live Pieces Planning Save Space Vaccine Woman Work
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.
MELINDA GATES

Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
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 GATES

Children Different Sick Vaccine
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself
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
We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Life Value Worth

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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