If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATESIf 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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I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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