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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.

Melinda Gates

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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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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.
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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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That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.
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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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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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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as if it can't be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools we can redesign them.
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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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Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives.
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If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
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If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
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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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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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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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With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when they have economic opportunity, they have digital tools to use.
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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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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.
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