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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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More quotes by Melinda Gates
You can't save kids just with vaccines.
Melinda Gates
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.
Melinda Gates
Women are the centre of the family. It's the woman who decides what's eaten in the house, when to have the kids vaccinated everything that has to do with the children's health revolves around her.
Melinda Gates
I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
Melinda Gates
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.
Melinda Gates
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.
Melinda Gates
If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
Melinda Gates
I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
Melinda Gates
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
Melinda Gates
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.
Melinda Gates
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.
Melinda Gates
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.
Melinda Gates
Men make different investments than women do. Women tend to invest more of their earnings than men do in their family's well-being - as much as 10 times more.
Melinda Gates
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?'
Melinda Gates
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
Melinda Gates
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.
Melinda Gates
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
Melinda Gates
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
Melinda Gates
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.
Melinda Gates
If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just not going to make the progress that you want to make. But if you put her at the centre, you can change a lot for that family, and it has ripple effects through the economy.
Melinda Gates
