"Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh." — Melinda Gates

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.

It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in the world.

All lives have an equal value.

In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.