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Melinda Gates Inspirational Quotes (72)

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We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.
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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.
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[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.
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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
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Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge difference. You can do things to reduce the inequities by making sure that they can get clean energy, safe energy. To make sure they're not having to collect water every day. That's huge for women in the developing world.
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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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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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We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes every week.
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If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
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