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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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Philanthropist
Dallas
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Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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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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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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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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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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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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[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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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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It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.
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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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Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.
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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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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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