Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help 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.
More Melinda Gates Quotes
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Sometimes it’s the people you can’t help who inspire you the most.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other.
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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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If you can’t travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you’re making.
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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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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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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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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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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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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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Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That’s the place that governments often don’t want to, or can’t, work.
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When we better understand the realities of these women’s lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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Now we just really need to do the work, which we’re doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
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You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work.
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Philanthropy is not about the money. It’s about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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