It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
MELINDA GATESBirth 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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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