Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies… — 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
Today is International Women's Day, and there's a fantastic set of pieces running by an organization called ONE called "Poverty Is Sexist."… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really… — 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
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. — 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
In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
The world is full of what seem like intractable problems. Often we let that paralyze us. Instead, let is spur you to… — 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
The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United… — 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
We start with an economic approach. We look at what are the greatest causes of death in the developing world, and what… — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men. — Melinda Gates Copy Share Image
We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make… — 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
