Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
MELINDA GATESIn 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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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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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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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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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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