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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.

Melinda Gates

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.
MELINDA GATES

Creation Deserve Fight Future Learning Live Play Time Woman World
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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Children Growth Important Myself Name Situation Thinking
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
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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Build Economy Ourselves 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
We look in our own backyard and say, ‘How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?’
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Change Family Help Look Ourselves Problem Risk
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
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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Care Chance City Development Goodness Home Job Man Move Woman Yourself
Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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Help Inspirational People Time Yourself
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Believe Health Myself Problem Solution
Government funding that’s coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It’s really palpable – it’s making a huge difference saving lives.
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Development Difference Government Life Save
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
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
When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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Development Global Investment Powerful Woman Yourself
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
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Connection Deep Humanity Oneself

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