Melinda French Gates

So I wrote a book that came out last year called The Next Day, and it's about transitions in life.

You don't get to age 60 without having made, all of us, lots of transitions in life.

Some you wanted to make, some you didn't expect, some that were easy, some that were really hard.

And so I decided to put this book out because what I realized was

In those transitions are the biggest moments of growth.

And if you can look at them that way and you can have the courage to go through them, you can pick these lessons out for yourself.

And so it felt extraordinarily vulnerable to do that book.

Yeah.

I have lived an incredible, just a very privileged life.

I don't take that for granted at all.

But in the end of the day, it doesn't.

Life is about the relationships you have and the family and the friends and what you make of it, how you make meaning out of it.

So I've tried to take this unbelievable wealth I never thought I would have and plow it back into society in ways to make it better.

So, yeah, that's what the book is about, is growth in transitions.

Well, let me say this.

I think we're having a reckoning as a society, right?

No girl, no girl should ever be put in the situation that they were put in by Epstein and whatever was going on with all of the various people around him.

No girl.

I mean, it's just, it's beyond heartbreaking, right?

I remember being those ages those girls were.