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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.

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 care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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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In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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.
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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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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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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio.
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Abortion has become a very politicised issue that I think countries have to work out themselves. In a lot of countries, people can't even yet agree on what their laws should be.
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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.
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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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