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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

Melinda Gates

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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