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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

Melinda Gates

After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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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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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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 learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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 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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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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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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