I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
MELINDA GATESAs a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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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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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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That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Take 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.
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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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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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