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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development

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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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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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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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 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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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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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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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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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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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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