One life is worth no more or less than any other.
MELINDA GATESYou are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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All lives have an equal value.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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My 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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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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?’
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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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