231 Quotes by Melinda Gates

As a parent, the responsible thing to do – if you love your child – is to vaccinate your child.

Saving lives starts with bringing everyone in.

You can’t save kids just with vaccines.

And how can we create a moment of lift in human hearts so that we all want to lift up women? Because sometimes all that’s needed to lift women up is to stop pulling them down.

That’s universal – we all want to bring every good thing to our children. But what’s not universal is our ability to provide every good thing.

Every society says its outsiders are the problem. But the outsiders are not the problem; the urge to create outsiders is the problem. Overcoming that urge is our greatest challenge and our greatest promise. It will take courage and insight, because the people we push to the margins are the ones who trigger in us the feelings we’re afraid of.

That is why we women have to lift each other up – not to replace men at the top of the hierarchy, but to become partners with men in ending hierarchy.

Overcoming the need to create outsiders is our greatest challenge as human beings... This is why there are so many old and weak and sick and poor people on the margins of society. We tend to push out the people who have qualities we’re most afraid we will find in ourselves.

In societies of deep poverty, women are pushed to the margins. Women are outsiders. That’s not a coincidence. When any community pushes any group out, especially its women, it’s creating a crisis that can only be reversed by bringing the outsiders back in. That is the core remedy for poverty and almost any social ill – including the excluded, going to the margins of society and bringing everybody back in.