Melinda Gates Quotes

You can’t save kids just with vaccines.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups – development, testing, marketing, user education.