As I looked at the young women in that circle at Camp, I could feel the power and the potential in each of them, and I wished for them a world in which their ideas would be safe. But the only way to keep an idea safe is to make a personal commitment to it. An idea can't be abandoned at the first sign someone else thinks it's weird. Test the idea. Be like a dog with a bone.
Some ideas take years to come to fruition, to gain acceptance, to take shape.
Only the very hardy will stay with an idea that demands one's very being to come to life. A great idea will take great imagination and resourcefulness. A willingness to try lots of different things to sell it is required of the idea holder. The most independent women I know have these qualities. The power of an idea is immense.