A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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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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 speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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All lives have an equal value.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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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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We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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