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  • My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

    Girl   Army   Giving  
    Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.280, Harlequin
  • It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

  • A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

    Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.237, Pan Macmillan
  • I've always been bossy.

    Bossy  
  • My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

    "My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.
  • I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

    Hate   Thinking   People  
    "Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2012.
  • The Mayans were right, as it turns out, when they predicted the world would end in 2012. It was just a select world: the G.O.P. universe of arrogant, uptight, entitled, bossy, retrogressive white guys. [...] Instead of smallpox, plagues, drought and Conquistadors, the Republican decline will be traced to a stubborn refusal to adapt to a world where poor people and sick people and black people and brown people and female people and gay people count.

    Gay   White   Sick  
    "A Lost Civilization". www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2012.
  • If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.

    Strong   Guy   Details  
    Source: www.smh.com.au
  • Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

    Daughter   Skills   Next  
  • 'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

    People   Boss   Reason  
  • She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

    Play   White   Together  
  • Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

    Karen Hawkins (2011). “Scandal in Scotland”, p.97, Simon and Schuster
  • You can't treat a romantic relationship the same way you do a business one, by being bossy. It takes tender, compromising, loving tactics. And that's such a different approach.

    Different   Tactics   Way  
    "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.
  • Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life. It was like poison ivy or a bossy houseguest. Once it was there, you couldn't tell it what to do. You had to really fight to keep it from taking over.

    Honesty   Fighting   Ivy  
    Ann Brashares (2008). “The Last Summer (of You and Me)”, p.163, Penguin
  • There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

    Order   People   Giving  
    "Still confronting: Interview with John Trudell - Theory of the planted operative". Interview with Jose Barreiro, newsmaven.io. September 13, 2006.
  • Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.

    Eye   Gps   Talking  
  • I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

  • Am I bossy? Absolutely. I don't like to lose, and if I'm told 'no', then I find another way to get my 'yes.'

    Way   Ifs   Loses  
    "Naomi Campbell: 'Everyone has a temper" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2013.
  • My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

    Baby   Book   Political  
  • Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

    Girl   Boys   Roles  
  • We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce.

    Girl   Boys   Littles  
    "'Lean In': Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg Explains What's Holding Women Back". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 11, 2013.
  • He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.

    Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1054, Penguin
  • Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that's partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.

    Girl   Jobs   Boys  
    "Sheryl Sandberg Tells Oprah About Her ‘Date’ With Mark Zuckerberg, Her Marriage And Feeling Like A Fraud". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2013.
  • When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive, passive-aggressive, and infuriatingly obstructionist in her career habits. Madonna is manic, perfectionist, workaholic. Monroe abused alcohol and drugs, while Madonna shuns them. Monroe had a tentative, melting, dreamy solipsism; Madonna has Judy Holliday's wisecracking smart mouth and Joan Crawford's steel will and bossy, circus master managerial competence.

  • A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

    Children   School   Mean  
  • Why would you do that? (Delphine) Why do you think? (Jericho) Because I’m a bossy hag and you’d rather be enslaved to a man you hate than deal with me. (Delphine) You know…you’re not funny. (Jericho) I think I’m hysterical. (Delphine)

    Hate   Men   Thinking  
  • We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

    "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.
  • I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

    Trying   Proud   Produce  
  • I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

    Boss   Trying   Done  
    "Lunch Date: Rosie O'Donnell". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 30, 2006.
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