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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.
Melinda Gates
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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
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Melinda Ann French
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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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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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[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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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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Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
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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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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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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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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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