If I really believe all lives have equal value, and if I use contraceptives, which I do, and if I'm counselling my son and my two daughters to use them, how am I not serving the women who don't have access to the contraceptives they need? Melinda Gates More Quotes by Melinda Gates More Quotes From Melinda Gates I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children. Melinda Gates healthy positive children 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. Melinda Gates mom change kids It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world. Melinda Gates health children world 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. Melinda Gates marketing running school 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 or polio. Melinda Gates polio-vaccine vaccines children But iPods and iPhones are two things we don't get for our kids. Melinda Gates iphone two 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, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men. Melinda Gates agendas men past 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. Melinda Gates motivation inspiration sex 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. Melinda Gates motivation inspiration children As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child. Melinda Gates parent love-you children Government funding that's coming from the United States is making a huge difference on the ground in the developing world. It's really palpable - it's making a huge difference saving lives. Melinda Gates united-states differences government 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. Melinda Gates agendas birth-control people If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities. Melinda Gates risk government book We also looked at gender parity in terms of pay, but then we looked at everybody's pay, there was a discrepancy, but I expected bigger discrepancies. So we fixed those really quick. Melinda Gates top-news A child born today is half as likely to die before the age of five, compared to if she was born in 2000, the human and economic benefits of this are enormous. Melinda Gates health-news The data has been really striking. Melinda Gates health-news We got deeply involved in Ebola, and we're already getting deeply involved in Zika, we try to bring the best scientists together, and all the best thinking together, with CDC, with WHO. Melinda Gates company-news If you want to transform society and lift people out of poverty, you also have to look at this from a women's perspective, poverty is sexist. Melinda Gates company-news I can go to a specific region and a specific state ... in Mexico and I can look and see exactly how we are doing on maternal health, child health and neonatal deaths, that tells me as a government how to act. Melinda Gates health-news Malnutrition is the underlying cause of nearly half of all under-5 child deaths, yet for too long the world has underinvested in nutrition. Today we see an opportunity to change that. Melinda Gates health-news
