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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

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
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
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.
MELINDA GATES

Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
MELINDA GATES

Care Light Shine Spiritual
Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
MELINDA GATES

Fingers Improvement Information Money Resource World Yourself
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
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Miracle Vaccine
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
MELINDA GATES

Change Cultural Open People Point Social View Yourself
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES

Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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Appearance Born Control Country Global People
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.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
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.
MELINDA GATES

Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
All lives have an equal value.
MELINDA GATES

Equality Live One Liner Value
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
MELINDA GATES

Help Inspirational People Time Yourself

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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