Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a…

“You like being bossy.” “I like being in charge,” Dawson corrected as he removed Adam’s other boot.”

— Kendall McKenna

I think women get labeled a lot as being crazy. But I think men make us crazy.

— Jules Asner

This [U.S.] bombing in Libya. So what are we doing in Libya? We just dropped some bombs on someone who we found is a…

— Michael T. Flynn

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

I'm a boss by nature. I'm bossy. I'm not imperious, but I don't really want people to curtsy low before me and back out…

— Helen Hayes

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. He was the first one to do it…

— Kevin Connolly

The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate…

— John Muir

Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good…

— Myles Munroe

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 the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint -…

— Maeve Binchy

“My momma always said bossy was good for a deputy and bad for everything else.”

— James Buchanan

“Stay classy but not bossy.”

— Debasish Mridha

When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant;…

— Adam Grant

“Sir, yes, sir!' Tyler jumps up mock-saluting. 'I love when you get bossy, it's kind of adorable”

— Kiersten White

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…

— Sheryl Sandberg