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Melinda Gates

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
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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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Growth Investment People Woman
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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Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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Born Determination Future Woman
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Different Family Investment Man Time Woman
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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Best Children Vaccine Woman Work Yourself
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
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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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
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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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
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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Connection Deep Generosity Human Humanity Inspirational Life Meaning Purpose Result
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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Development Difference Government Life Save
If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Compassionate Direction Fortunate Help Ideas Kindness Life Person Right Start Success Time Yourself
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Country Myself Quality Woman World
You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Children Medicine Save Vaccine Yourself
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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Development Difference Help Learning Story Travel Woman World Yourself
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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Economics Population Science Time Woman Work
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Planning Pregnant Tools Woman World

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