231 Quotes by Melinda Gates

If you ask, who has the chance to move into the city and get a good job out in the developing world? It's a man. Who's left to care for the kids back at home? The woman is.

Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

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.

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

One life is worth no more or less than any other

All lives have an equal value.

Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.

Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.

If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.