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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Melinda Gates

If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
MELINDA GATES

Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
MELINDA GATES

Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Education Home Reading Woman
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
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
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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Act Bad Business Design Education Failure Help Tragedy
What great changes have not been ambitious?
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Ambition Change Greatness Inspirational Motivational
All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATES

Better Creation Family Hope Live Ourselves Woman
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.
MELINDA GATES

Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
MELINDA GATES

Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
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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Country Myself Quality Woman World
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
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.
MELINDA GATES

Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
MELINDA GATES

Development Difference Government Life Save
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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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World

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