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Melinda Ann Gates (née French; born August 15, 1964), DBE is an American philanthropist. She is a former Microsoft employee and co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She worked at Microsoft, where she was project manager for Microsoft Bob, Encarta and Expedia.

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I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.

Children, Healthy, Positive, Stay, Three

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.

Americans, Children, School, Thinking, Times

You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Empowering Women, Fortunate, Helped, Helping, Inspirational Women, Life

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.

Free, Girl, Greater, Passion, Raise, Voice

In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.

Contraceptives, Country, People, Realize, Think, Thinking

We started our foundation because we believe we have a real opportunity to help advance equity around the world, to help make sure that, no matter where a person is born, he or she has the chance to live a healthy, productive life.

Believe, Life, Productive, Real

If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.

Gave, Help, Inspiration, Positive, Sometime, Success

When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't.

Guy, Half, Men, Presenting, Tables

Helping people doesn't have to be an unsound financial strategy.

People, Charity, Helping, Unsound, Financial

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.

Plan, Pregnancies, Pregnancy, Should Have, Tools, World

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

Contraceptives, Needs, Women, Work, Worldwide

The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.

Biggest, Changes, Children, Health, Space, Vaccines

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

Everybody, Girl, Inspiring, Invest, Investing, Woman

If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.

Allow, Children, Empower, Empowering, Empowering Women

It's really one of my all-time favorite things to do. To go out and really see the kids and visit the moms who are in these programs because I think I really get to see what happens on the ground and connect with them about what changes are that happen in their lives because of some of the giving that we're able to do.

Change, Giving, Kids, Mom, Programs, See

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Born, Constantly, Lucky, Saying, States, United States

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 thing.

Ability, Children, Inspiration, Motivation, Universal

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.

Children, Group, Instance, Kids, Vaccinate, Years

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 yet agree on what their laws should be.

Agree, Become, Country, Law, Politicised, Thinking

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 about abortion. We're not talking about population control. What I'm talking about is giving women the power to save their lives, to save their children's lives and to give their families the best possible future.

Inspirational, Motivational, Children, Make, Abortion, Clear

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