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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.

Melinda Gates

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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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Affect Poverty Woman World
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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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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Ability Children Goodness Ourselves Universe
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World
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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
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?’
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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself

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