Melinda Gates

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Melinda Gates

In different places you run into myths around vaccination or around family planning. In the United States, one of the myths that…

— 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…

— Melinda Gates

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a…

— Melinda Gates

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

— Melinda Gates

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

— Melinda Gates

Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women,…

— Melinda Gates

But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.

— Melinda Gates

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

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

— Melinda Gates

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful…

— Melinda Gates

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

It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.

— Melinda Gates

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.

— Melinda Gates

We set out what's going to be our work time versus our foundation time versus family time, and we'll reassess that... sometimes…

— Melinda Gates