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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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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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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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