All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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