Bossy Quote by Anna Maria Chavez

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Research shows that girls look at leadership differently than boys.

— Anna Maria Chavez

If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means…

— Adam Grant

As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy.

— Sheryl Sandberg

In this fast-paced business world, female leaders need to make sure they're not perceived as pushy, aggressive or competent. One way to do that…

— Sarah Cooper

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

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we…

— Arianna Huffington

We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.

— Condoleezza Rice

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

Sometimes, for girls, it's about building confidence and giving them a can-do attitude. It's seeing role models, people like yourselves, doing those jobs and…

— Esther McVey

I'd like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Women get labeled 'bossy' when it's like, 'Maybe I'm a leader. Maybe I just know what I want.'

— Margo Price