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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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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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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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Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
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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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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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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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Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the problems affecting the Pacific Northwest and make some change there?'
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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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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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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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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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