Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

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.

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.

Sometimes it's the people you can't help who inspire you the most.