Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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