It’s important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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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 premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn’t die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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