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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.

Melinda Gates

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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves Woman
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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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