Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve.
Melinda GatesBill [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.
Melinda GatesI felt suicidal. I couldn't stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn't it be great if the car crashed and I died?
Melinda GatesBill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
Melinda GatesContraceptives 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 their families, they tend to decide precisely what demographers, economists, and development experts recommend. They invest in the long-term human capital of their families.
Melinda Gates