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Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason. -- Stefanie Powers
I've always been bossy. -- Shirley Temple
Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females. -- Ida Lupino
My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect! -- Jenny Eclair
No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience. -- Star Jones
In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated. -- Jen Lancaster
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. -- Amy Poehler
I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married. -- Star Jones
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. -- Nate Berkus
I am not bossy, I am the boss. -- Beyonce Knowles
'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason. -- Stefanie Powers
I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else. -- Shannon Hale
My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head. -- Julie Kagawa
Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all. -- Diana Wynne Jones
As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.' -- Sheryl Sandberg
Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree. -- Myles Munroe
My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it since Rocket Richard. I was young when it happened, but I remember it very distinctly. -- Kevin Connolly
Saudi Arabia is, of course, the keystone of OPEC. Saudi Arabia has had the distinction of remaining stable through all the escalating tumult of recent decades, reliably pumping out its roughly 10 million barrels a day like Bossy the cow in America's oil import barn. -- James Howard Kunstler
In your standard-issue family, of which few remain, but on which our expectations are still based, there are parents and there are children. The way you know which are which, aside from certain size and age differences and despite any behavior similarities, is that the parents are the bossy ones. -- Delia Ephron
I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken. -- Mamie Gummer
I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do. -- Judi Dench
I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy. -- Gayle King
I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life - it's just on set. -- Margot Robbie
For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life. -- Kelis
I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. -- Emma Watson
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.' But I'm a loyal person. -- Naomi Campbell
I have this idea of myself as this quiet, observant, thoughtful child, which my parents roundly contradict. They claim that I was loud and bossy and dancing all the time. -- Carrie Coon
In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it. -- Mitch Daniels
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that. -- Kiri Te Kanawa
You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.' -- Clare Balding
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. -- Sheryl Sandberg
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. -- Camille Paglia
I don't consider myself bossy, but I do know what I want. You know, I have a gut feeling about a piece of material, but I've never envisioned myself as the director on top of the hill with a megaphone in my hand, screaming at 1,000 extras. -- Jason Reitman
I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they? -- Heidi Klum
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. -- Sheryl Sandberg
Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman. -- Karen Hawkins
I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life. -- Amy Poehler
You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it. -- Rachel Caine
There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect. -- John Trudell
Problem does not lie in being a husband; the problem is with acting as a husband (being bossy). -- Dada Bhagwan
I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity. -- Rosa Clemente
Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed â??bossyâ?? by their peers, -- Anna Maria Chavez
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.' -- Naomi Campbell
I am such a bossy producer and such a control freak that there's a part of me that really longs to be bossed around. -- Kathleen Hanna
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
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. -- Peta Credlin
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. -- Drew Barrymore
I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time. -- Jarvis Cocker

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