Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATESEveryone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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