If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATESAround 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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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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 we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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