Bossy Women Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Quentin Carmody didn't do early mornings, heights or bossy women.

Ros Baxter

#3. I love bossy women. Some people hate the word, and I understand how "bossy" can seem like a shitty way to describe a woman with a determined point of view, but for me, 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

#4. The proclamation and witness of the Gospel are the first service that Christians can offer every person and the whole human race, as they are called to communicate to all the love of God, who manifested himself fully in the only Redeemer of the world, Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#5. 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?

Matt Walsh

#6. Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul.

Joe Biden

#7. I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

Shan Sa

#8. 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

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

Sheryl Sandberg

#10. ... a certain kind of wanderlust can only be assuaged by the acts of the body itself in motion, not the motion of the car, boat, or plane.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Whatever end found us, it would not find us separated.
Bella Cullen

Stephenie Meyer

#12. Once I started focusing on the things I wanted, they all started coming true.

Brooke Burke

#13. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Anais Nin

#14. I feel most bossy in jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and some heels. I just feel bossy that way. I also feel confident in a sick dress at a premiere. Like most women, as long as I'm comfortable in it, I feel confident.

Tika Sumpter

#15. Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

Sheryl Crow

#16. I mean, I am human, got feelings and desires, and might ultimately want the same thang, but can I get a moment of mental stimulation first?

Eric Jerome Dickey

#17. Real You is all you have, and all other paths are false. And in the best case, Real You is so happy to finally be recognized, it rewards you with Originality.

Mary Karr

#18. I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

Christopher Walken

#19. 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

#20. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.

Bryce Dallas Howard

#21. 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

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

Juliet Marillier

#23. My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

Eli Manning

#24. Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

Chester Bennington