Needs Quotes by Melinda Gates

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

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

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

— Melinda Gates

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

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

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

Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.

— Melinda Gates

What great changes have not been ambitious?

— Melinda Gates

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

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

— Melinda Gates

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

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

“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

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

Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.

— Melinda Gates