Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
MELINDA GATESSometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It’s a man. Who’s left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.
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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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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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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 felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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