Melinda Gates Quotes

My foundation is absolutely about the women we work with, and they are contributing every day to their families, to their communities, and to the economy of their countries. All we are doing is enabling them to be the best that they can be.

If you economically empower a woman, she represents enormous opportunity that can actually be transformative not only for her family and for her community, but at the aggregate level for the economy.

Midwives not only save lives. They are also actors of social change.

When we empower women, society benefits, grows, and thrives.

Empowerment of women is the empowerment of the nation. No household, no society, no state, no country has ever moved forward without empowering its women.

We need to empower women. Give women a voice in the decision-making process. Give women a political voice where they can champion, for their own welfare. And, of course, for us. United Nations - organizations, agencies - we need to do our part.

I want to empower women.

When women succeed, America succeeds.

I wanted to help women and their families.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

I hope that through Fast Forward, we can encourage women everywhere to know their power wherever they find themselves; to find their purpose; and to connect with others in order to create a better world - especially for women and girls.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.

It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.

I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Women in the Islamic world are the hope of the whole planet.

Women and girls transform societies.

Empowering women and girls is the only way to protect their rights and make sure they can realise their full potential.

When I took over, I thought that I must do something for the empowerment of women.

Women's rights are nothing but a part of the bigger picture, which is human rights. Women are trusted with the lives of their kids, even serve as teachers and doctors, but they aren't trusted with their own lives.

All of us have mothers, sisters, daughters at home and it is our responsibility to protect them and make them aware of their rights.

I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.