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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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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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In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.
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I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they're growing up in it has to do with who they are as an individual.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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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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When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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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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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: Here I am.
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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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