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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.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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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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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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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You can't save kids just with vaccines.
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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one button. They've given their cell-phone number to five trusted friends, and right away their GPS location goes out: Here I am.
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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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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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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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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