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Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

The Girl Scouts is an organization that constantly gives you new goals to achieve and that's what life is all about.

Girl Scouts is such an iconic organization that it's easy to overlook how daring an idea it was for founder Juliette Gordon Low to gather those first 18 girls in that troop in Savannah, Georgia. It was 1912, after all, and women wouldn't earn the right to vote for another eight years.

Sometimes when I speak to groups or I'm interviewed by a journalist, I ask them to imagine their communities without Girl Scouts - to imagine the thousands of food drives and clothing and toy collections that would never take place if not for Girl Scouts.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement - I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.

Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

I like being a Girl Scout.

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school.