26 Quotes About Bossy

As far as I can tell, kids are called bossy when they behave in a dictatorial and domineering fashion. They’re called bossy when they try to order people around and refuse to listen to authority figures. Here’s a suggestion: instead of telling us not to refer to them as bossy, why don’t we teach them not to be bossy? We concentrate so much on eradicating negative words while forgetting to address the behavior that the words describe.

Bossy means “given to ordering people around, highhanded, domineering, overly authoritative, dictatorial, abrasive.” ...Could it be that girls are called bossy when they’re… well, bossy? Could it be that boys are also called bossy for the same reason?

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.

You can't love me.''Don't be bossy. I can do what the hell I like.

Stay classy but not bossy.

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.

You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said. 'I prefer the term strategic thinker.

A boss in essence is every woman willing to try, push, succeed, fail but ultimately do the work in her lifescape to make her mark on the world the way she wants to draw it.

This [ban bossy] campaign is indicative of one of the main problems with feminism today -- the idea that women are victims in need of more and more special protection.