Women and girls should be able to determine their own future, no matter where they're born.
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.
I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.
We talk a lot in our home together about where we're going, what I'm doing.
Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.
If you don't have an effective teacher in front of the classroom, you won't change the trajectory for students.
Now we just really need to do the work, which we're doing, to get contraceptives out to women worldwide.
If you want to lift up an economy in Africa, you basically start with the women.
If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.
As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.
I'm happy we have three healthy children and we'll stay with three healthy children.
Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.
When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.
Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.
Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the school system.
Now, as smartphones are coming up, there are all kinds of apps that will start to be developed that will help women.
The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
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.
Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
You are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.
Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
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.
It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.
Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.
If we don't empower women, we don't allow them to unlock the potential of themselves and their children.
It's important to remember that behind every data point is a daughter, a mother, a sister—a person with hopes and dreams.
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.
Our economies are built on the backs of all this unpaid labor that women do.
Bill and I both firmly believe that even the most difficult global health problems can be solved.
