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Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

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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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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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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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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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
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When I look at 225 million women who want contraceptives, and then I look at the 52 million unintended pregnancies that could be avoided by addressing this unmet need, where can we have the biggest impact with our voice, our dollars, our partners? It's on contraceptives. I would rather address the problem upstream.
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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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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.
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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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