Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
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We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we’d invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I’ve probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times.
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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