Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
MELINDA GATESMy 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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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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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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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With 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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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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