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.
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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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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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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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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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?
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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