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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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Melinda Gates
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: August 15
Businessperson
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Patron Of The Arts
Philanthropist
Dallas
Texas
Melinda Ann French
Melinda French Gates
Melinda Ann Gates
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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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My undergraduate work was in computer science and economics. It just happened to be at that time when 34 percent of computer-science majors were women. We didn't realize it was at the peak at the time.
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those from junior high to high school. But, that critical step taking students from high school into adulthood is badly broken. And it can no longer support the weight it must bear.
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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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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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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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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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I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
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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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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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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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Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.
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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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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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Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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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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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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