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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.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Abortion Country Issues Law People Politics
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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Change Force Strong Support Togetherness Woman
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don’t get there by just pushing an outsider’s point of view.
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Change Cultural Open People Point Social View 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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Children Desire Force Goodness Ourselves Society World
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
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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Education Fall Notice System Wrong
It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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Economy Start Woman Yourself
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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Children Different Sick Vaccine
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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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
We set out what’s going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we’ll reassess that… sometimes every week.
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Family Foundation Ourselves Time Work
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.
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Business Computer Education Myself Production Science Work
Housework 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.
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Education Home Reading Woman
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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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk

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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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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