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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Organizational Founder
Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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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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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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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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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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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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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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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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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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Women and girls face a whole host of issues. We start with health, so we work very deeply on maternal deaths, making sure that a mom doesn't die in childbirth, making sure that she has access, for instance, to AIDS medication.
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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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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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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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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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