I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATESWe 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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Deep human connection is … the purpose and the result of a meaningful life – and it will inspire the most amazing acts of love, generosity, and humanity.
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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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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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What great changes have not been ambitious?
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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