Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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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In 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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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 around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child’s health.
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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Women are the centre of the family. It’s the woman who decides what’s eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated; everything that has to do with the children’s health revolves around her.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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