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…
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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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…
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One life is worth no more or less than any other
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My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing,…
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I felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
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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…
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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All lives have an equal value.
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But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids.
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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,…
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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.…
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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…
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Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
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All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.
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You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
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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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