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

Melinda Gates

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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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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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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 around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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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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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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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can’t even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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