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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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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines.
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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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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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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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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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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