The 114+ Melinda Gates Quotes

My Background Was Computer Science And Business School, So Eventually I Worked My Way Up Where I Was Running Product Groups - Development, Testing, Marketing, User Education.

I'm Happy We Have Three Healthy Children And We'll Stay With Three Healthy Children.

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, And Yet All The Programs In The Past Were Predominantly Focused On Men.

Birth Control Has Almost Completely And Totally Disappeared From The Global Health Agenda, And The Victims Of This Paralysis Are The People Of Sub-saharan Africa And South Asia.

I Think The Americans Need To Understand That A Lot Of Times The Children Are Bored In School, And That Is Why They Are Not Staying In.

When Girls Are Educated And Free To Pursue Their Passions, They Contribute More To A Thriving Society. When Women Have A Voice, They Raise It To Demand A Life That Is Greater Than What They've Been Told They Have A Right To Expect. And These Demands Change The Future For Everyone.

It Is Still Just Unbelievable To Us That Diarrhea Is One Of The Leading Causes Of Child Deaths In The World.

Women Around The World Should Have A Tool That Helps Them Plan Their Pregnancies.

Think, For A Moment, About Our Educational Ladder. We've Strengthened The Steps Lifting Students From Elementary School To Junior High, And Those From Junior High To High School. But, That Critical Step Taking Students From High School Into Adulthood Is Badly Broken. And It Can No Longer Support The Weight It Must Bear.

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. It Just Means That They're Getting To Make Choices About Their Lives.

Despite The Debunking, You Have A Small Group In The Last Five Years That Hasn't Wanted To Vaccinate Their Children, For Instance, For Measles. Then, All Of Sudden, We Got An Outbreak Of Measles And Kids Were Starting To Die From Measles.

Today Is International Women's Day, And There's A Fantastic Set Of Pieces Running By An Organization Called One Called "poverty Is Sexist." It's A Great Way To Quickly Learn About What's Actually Going On For Women In Poverty Around The World, And Then Do Something About It.