Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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 care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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