Sublime

MELINDA GATES Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Killian’s insight helped me realize that a big part of the work I do to support women and girls has to be my inner work—facing my own fears and flaws. She helped me see that I cannot stand for gender equality in the world unless I have it in my marriage.

These women’s letters were published in a book called Motherhood in Bondage.

BILL GATES Cofounder, Microsoft; Cochair, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

In 2003, we funded the work of Vishwajeet Kumar, a medical doctor with advanced training from Johns Hopkins who was launching a life-saving program in a village called Shivgarh in Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s poorest states.

If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings.

If you want to lift up humanity, empower women. It is the most comprehensive, pervasive, high-leverage investment you can make in human beings.

That’s what it means to be poor. They’re on the margins. They’re not getting the benefit of what human beings know how to do for each other.