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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
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
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Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
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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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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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[Bill Gates] wanted me to stay working at Microsoft, but I didn't think he could be CEO and we could have the family life that we both had growing up, which is what we envisioned. I knew I would go back to work at some point later to some profession. I just didn't know what.
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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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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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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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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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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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If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
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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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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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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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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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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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