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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.

Melinda Gates

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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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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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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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