I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I think the Americans need to understand that a lot of times the children are bored in school, and that is why… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It's bad business, and it's bad policy. But we act as… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups -… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Think, for a moment, about our educational ladder. We've strengthened the steps lifting students from elementary school to junior high, and those… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In the developing world, they don't have smartphones yet. They have the older plastic phones, but women are saving money on those,… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
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… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Contraceptives unlock one of the most dormant, but potentially powerful assets in development: women as decision-makers. When women have the power to make choices… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
When girls are educated and free to pursue their passions, they contribute more to a thriving society. When women have a voice, they raise… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that existed for… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s on the… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against… — Melinda Gates Copy Share
Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide. — Melinda Gates Copy Share
