I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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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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Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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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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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 are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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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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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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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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