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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.

Melinda Gates

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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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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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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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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