“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.” YearsFirstsIdeasGirlEasyLowsVoteOrganizationEightDaringFoundersGeorgiaIconicRight To VoteSavannahGirl Scout Author:Anna Maria Chavez
“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.” IfsSometimesGirlAsksSpeakCommunityImagineGroupsJournalistCollectionsClothingsToysGirl Scout Author:Anna Maria Chavez
“Too often, nonprofits are viewed as rigid and bureaucratic - less nimble and capable of adapting in this fluid environment than our corporate counterparts. I don't agree.” EnvironmentCapableAgreeCorporateFluidAdaptingCounterpartsNonprofitsNimble Author:Anna Maria Chavez
“What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.” EasyTermInternetMessagesMouthsSpreadFasterOnlineShort TermWord Of MouthMisinterpretation Author:Anna Maria Chavez
“I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.” KindPersonsGroupsTraditionPretentious Author:Anne Carson
“We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.” WorldCreationCreation Of The World Author:Anne Carson
“When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.” PeopleShouldWritingBelieveIdeasTeachNo Idea Author:Anne Carson
“I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindPersonsEffectsAcceptanceHappeningsEdgesRevelationsTerrifiedNever QuitInfatuated Author:Anne Carson
“I don't know that we really think any thoughts; we think connections between thoughts. That's where the mind moves, that's what's new, and the thoughts themselves have probably been there in my head or lots of other people's heads for a long time.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMindLongMovingLong TimeConnections Author:Anne Carson
“I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.” KnowsWantProcessLosesSpaceOpinionReviewsPersonaManufacturing Author:Anne Carson