You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATESIf 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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 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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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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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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