Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESOur 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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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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.
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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn’t realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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