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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

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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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