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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
Entrepreneur
Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.
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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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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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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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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise it to demand a life that is greater than what they've been told they have a right to expect. And these demands change the future for everyone.
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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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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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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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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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