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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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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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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.
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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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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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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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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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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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When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
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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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Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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When we invest in women, we invest in a powerful source of global development
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Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing it’s an iterative process.
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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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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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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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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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