Melinda Gates
Melinda Gates
Melinda Ann Gates, DBE is an American businesswoman and philanthropist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth15 August 1964
CountryUnited States of America
believe taking
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
believe focus catholic
I am Catholic, I was raised Catholic, I am a practicing Catholic. But I say we need to agree to disagree. We have a shared mission around poverty, and I focus on that, because we do a lot with the Catholic Church around poverty alleviation. I'm always looking for: what is the common thread? What do we care about? What do we believe in? We believe in women around the world. We believe in all lives have equal value.
real believe opportunity
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 government want
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.
inspirational believe bills
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
believe stay-true about-yourself
Make sure you continue to trust what you know now about yourself and stay true to what you believe in
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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.
choice conscious daughter learning start turned
So I made a conscious choice that when our daughter turned one, I would get back into those interests, those issues, and start learning them.
absolutely attracted careers switch trying
There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.
life
I want to live as private a life as I can because of our children.
home
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
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.
children normal people respectful
People are respectful when we're out with the children on a normal evening, and it couldn't be a better place to live for those reasons.