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If 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.

Melinda Gates

If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
MELINDA GATES

Economy Start Woman Yourself
I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?
MELINDA GATES

Cry Death Feeling Myself Stop Suicide
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in.
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Believe Stay True Trust Yourself
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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Dreams Hope Important Person Point Remember
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
MELINDA GATES

Care Live Mom Myself Save
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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Digital Economics Opportunity Place Time Tools
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
MELINDA GATES

Growth Investment People Woman
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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Different Family Place Planning Time Vaccine
We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Care Light Shine Spiritual
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
MELINDA GATES

Believe Children Death Leadership Sick World
If we don’t empower women, we don’t allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
MELINDA GATES

Children Growth Potential Woman
Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.
MELINDA GATES

Financial Help People Strategy
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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Decision Different Economics Herself Husband Money Phone Save Woman
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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Different Experiment Learning Myself Way
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
MELINDA GATES

Fortunate Help Life Person Yourself
Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they’re born.
MELINDA GATES

Born Determination Future Woman

If 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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If 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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