I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman… — 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
If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
As a woman finds economic opportunity, even if she's only earning a couple of dollars a day, if she can save it… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We also look at farming. Are we making sure that we're getting the latest seeds out to women so they can get… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
In places like India with smartphones, there's an app now for women if they're in a violent situation, they can press one… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Like in Africa, if somebody doesn't have fuel, they're still going and collecting firewood. If they get an oven, that's a huge… — 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
If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world?… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died? — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Even in our own agriculture strategy, if we got a great new drought-resistant seed and we managed to get it distributed in… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is.… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you don't invest in the woman, empower her, give her the things she needs to lift her family up, you're just… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
With economic opportunity, sometimes it's making sure that if they're not in a place where they can have good jobs, that when… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Childbearing, I mean, if there's no place to go to deliver your baby, then you're the one that's delivering in those unhealthy… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not.… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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