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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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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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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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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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Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.
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We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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