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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Melinda Gates

I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it’s making sure that if they’re not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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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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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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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 invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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