Melinda Gates Quotes

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• If we're going to make progress on this issue [of contraception], we have to be really clear about what our agenda is. We're not talking…
• It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
• We look in our own backyard and say, 'How do we help at-risk families, at risk youth? How do we think through some of the…
• One life is worth no more or less than any other
• My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing,…
• I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
• Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles…
• Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
• All lives have an equal value.
• But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
• 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 Africa are women,…
• The fact that 98 percent of women in [the U.S.] who are sexually experienced say they use birth control doesn't make sex any less sacred.…
• That's universal - we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what's not universal is our ability to provide every good…
• Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
• As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
• All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
• You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
• Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
• If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
• 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 about…

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