If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
MELINDA GATESWe have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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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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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 set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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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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