When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
MELINDA GATESWe have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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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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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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If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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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 went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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