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?’
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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Everyone 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.
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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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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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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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