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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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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.
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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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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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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.
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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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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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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 learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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