If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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All lives have an equal value.
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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Everyone 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.
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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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