Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATESHelping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATESWhen we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
MELINDA GATESAbortion 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.
MELINDA GATESTake time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
MELINDA GATESThe premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATESEveryone 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.
MELINDA GATESI 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.
MELINDA GATESHousework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
MELINDA GATESAll women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
MELINDA GATESYou 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.
MELINDA GATESI realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATESBill [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.
MELINDA GATESNow we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
MELINDA GATESI care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATESMake sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
MELINDA GATESI 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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