Melinda Ann Gates, who popularly known as Melinda Gates former general manager of Microsoft and co founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with her husband Bill Gates. The largest private charitable organization in the world. Forbes consistently ranked her as the world’s most powerful women. From the early 1990s, Melinda Gates was appointed as General Manager of Information Products, she holds the position till 1996.
Popular quotes of Melinda gates
- I learn in a different way. I learn experientially.
- But we also believe in taking risks, because that’s how you move things along.
- All lives have an equal value.
- I’m wholehearted about whatever I do.
- You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
- Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
- Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
- Disrespect for women grows when religions are dominated by men.
- We have to open up to others. We have to give up the need to be separate and superior.
- A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
Melinda gates quotes
You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can’t get her to come and get them then they won’t work
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
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All lives have an equal value.
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We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.
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After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
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I’m wholehearted about whatever I do.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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There’s a false perception that women in Africa somehow don’t love their babies they way we do, don’t grieve their loss the way we would. That is simply not true.
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You can’t save kids just with vaccines.
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I’m constantly saying to myself, ‘I’m lucky I was born in the United States.’
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We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
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I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
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Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.
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Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
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I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
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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.
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It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
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We started this mostly from an intellectual place.
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We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she’s carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.
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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.
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When women can decide whether and when to have children, it saves lives, promotes health, expands education, and creates prosperity—no matter what country in the world you’re talking about.
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In fact, no country in the last fifty years has emerged from poverty without expanding access to contraceptives.
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When women can decide whether and when to have children, it saves lives, promotes health, expands education, and creates prosperity—no matter what country in the world you’re talking about.
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If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings.
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It’s the mark of a backward society — or a society moving backward — when decisions are made for women by men
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We have to open up to others. We have to give up the need to be separate and superior.
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Great wealth can be very confusing. It can inflate and distort your sense of self — especially if you believe money means merit.
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Disrespect for women grows when religions are dominated by men
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I went to business school, and I went straight from that to a nine-year career at Microsoft. Eventually, I ran a big chunk of the consumer products division for Microsoft. Then I left with the birth of our first daughter because Bill and I both wanted to have a few kids.
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Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way.
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The biggest killers of children around the world are two things: diarrhea and pneumonia. When you think about it, in the United States, kids don’t die of diarrhea anymore, but it’s a huge problem in the developing world.
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Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
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I’m happy we have three healthy children and we’ll stay with three healthy children.
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Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
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Abortion has become a very politicized 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.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now.
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Poverty disproportionately affects women around the world.
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A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
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Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
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Melinda Gates Quotes About School
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what’s wrong with the school system.
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Everyone agrees that the failure of our high schools is tragic. It’s bad business, and it’s bad policy. But we act as if it can’t be helped. It can be helped. We designed these high schools; we can redesign them.
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Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it’s increasingly girls, not boys, who don’t know how to read.
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Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I’m seeing a lot of countries look at this now
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If you can’t go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don’t, you’re locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don’t have a chance.
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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.
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About Melinda gates
Melinda Ann French was born on August 15, 1964 in Dallas city at Texas. Her father Raymond Joseph French an aerospace engineer and her Mother Elaine Agnes Amerland a homemaker. Melinda has an older sister and two younger brother ,she was the second child among the four children’s in the family.
Melinda gone her schooling to a catholic school and she was the topper of the school at her years, Melinda graduated from Ursuline Academy of Dallas in 1982 , she was the highest ranked graduate in her academic years, she won the title of valedictorian. In 1986 from Duke university, She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics.
After the graduation, Melinda joined as a marketing manager in Microsoft, In addition, she worked for Expedia, which is now one of biggest travel booking websites today. Melinda was appointed as General Manager of Information Products, a position which she held until 1996.
Melinda began dating CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates in 1987, after meeting him at a trade fair in New York. She got married with Bill gates in 1994 in Hawaii. They have three children, two daughters and a son. They resides in Seattle