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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

Melinda Gates

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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Country Myself Quality Woman World
All lives have an equal value.
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Equality Live One Liner Value
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Financial Help People Strategy
Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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Help Medicine Need Protection Woman Work
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
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
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
If you don’t have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won’t change the trajectory for students.
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Affect Change Education Student Teacher Yourself
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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Decision Foundation Investment Myself Start Time Travel
As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.
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Children Love Parents Responsible Vaccinate 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
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Born Business Career Daughter Division Myself Ran
Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Death Face Girl Health Issues Mother Start Woman
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I’m counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don’t have access to the contraceptives they need?
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Believe Equality Myself Need Service Value Woman
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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Foundation Life Oneself Planet Value
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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Development Help Kind Start Technology Woman

I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft.Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.

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