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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.
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.
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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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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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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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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools we can redesign them.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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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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