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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

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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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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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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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Children Growth Potential Woman
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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