I'm wholehearted about whatever I do.

- Melinda Gates

When we invest in women and girls, we are investing in the people who invest in everyone else.

- Melinda Gates

I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimist…

- Melinda Gates

Connect deeply with others. Our humanity is the one thing that we all have in common.

- Melinda Gates

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

- Melinda Gates

I've travelled extensively in the last 16 years - to slums in Bangladesh, to townships in South Africa, to all kinds of places in India, etc. When I …

- Melinda Gates

Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.

- Melinda Gates

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

- Melinda Gates

Philanthropy is not about the money. It's about using whatever resources you have at your fingertips and applying them to improving the world.

- Melinda Gates