Girl Scouts is a term used alternately with "Girl Guides" to refer to female members of a Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Scouting and Guiding organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting or Guiding associations with some non-aligned organizations:
- Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
- Order of World Scouts
- International Union of Guides and Scouts of Europe
- World Federation of Independent Scouts
- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
- List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
- World Organization of the Scout Movement
- List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
- List of non-aligned Scouting organizations
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Famous quotes containing the words girl and/or scouts:
“... [a] girl one day flared out and told the principal “the only mission opening before a girl in his school was to marry one of those candidates [for the ministry].” He said he didn’t know but it was. And when at last that same girl announced her desire and intention to go to college it was received with about the same incredulity and dismay as if a brass button on one of those candidate’s coats had propounded a new method for squaring the circle or trisecting the arc.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“it pleaseth me when I see through the meadows
The tents and pavilions set up, and great joy have I
When I see o’er the campana knights armed and horses arrayed.
And it pleaseth me when the scouts set in flight the folk with
their goods;
And it pleaseth me when I see coming together after them an host of
armed men.”
—Bertrans De Born (fl. 12th century)