231 Quotes by Melinda Gates

Whenever you include a group that’s been excluded, you benefit everyone. And when you’re working globally to include women and girls, who are half of every population, you’re working to benefit all members of every community. Gender equity lifts everyone.

I think it’s very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their name or their situation that they’re growing up in; it has to do with who they are as an individual.

When people can’t agree, it’s often because there is no empathy, no sense of shared experience. If you feel what others feel, you’re more likely to see what they see. Then you can understand one another. Then you can move to the honest and respectful exchange of ideas that is the mark of a successful partnership. That’s the source of progress.

Today in the US, we’re sending our daughters into a workplace that was designed for our dads – set up on the assumption that employees had partners who would stay home to do the unpaid work...

If I ever see myself as separate or superior, if I try to lift myself up by pulling down others, if I believe people are on a journey I have completed, doing personal work I have mastered, attempting tasks I’ve accomplished – if I have any feeling that I am above them instead of trying to rise with them, then I have isolated myself from them.

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.'