We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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.
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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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