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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.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Philanthropist
Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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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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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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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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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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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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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.
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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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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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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 can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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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