We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
MELINDA GATESWith economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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 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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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?
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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