Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
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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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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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development.
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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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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.
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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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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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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family’s well-being – as much as 10 times more.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she’s only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it on her phone, she then makes different decisions for her household than her husband might.
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