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.
MELINDA GATESBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why they are not staying in.
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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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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
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In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for a long time, that has been completely debunked, was that autism was linked to a vaccine.
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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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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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