Top 103 Bossy Quotes & Sayings

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

'Bossy' is someone who bosses people around without reason.

Let's just say that where a change was required, I adjusted. In every relationship that exists, people have to seek a way to survive. If you really care about the person, you do what's necessary, or that's the end. For the first time, I found that I really could change, and the qualities I most admired in myself I gave up. I stopped being loud and bossy... Oh, all right. I was still loud and bossy, but only behind his back.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

I'm the oldest of three girls. My sisters say I can be bossy.

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.'

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

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?

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.

I remember playing in my mom's closet with Kim as little girls - we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

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.

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.

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.

I can't tell you how many times I heard from younger sisters that their older sisters were bossy and judgmental.

I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life.

Seeking to ban things is as bossy as you can get.

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.

I'm going to try really hard not to be bossy, but I've only done stand-up comedy and then my own show where you're the total boss of everything!

Yes, you are nosy. You're a dreadfully nosy, horribly bossy, appallingly clean old woman. Control yourself. You're victimizing us all.

I am very bossy.

My, aren't we bossy today. Give a girl an army and it goes straight to her head.

I told you I didn't want to fight with Charlie." "Nobody said that you had to." I glowered at him. "I can't help myself when he gets all bossy like that?my natural teenage instincts overpower me.

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.

A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.

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.

My friends say that at school I was quite bossy. I still am a bit bossy, but a nice bossy. I've always been very strong-minded, even as a little girl. But I'm a great friend, and I've never been in a fight in my life. I think it's nice to be nice, especially because I've never been scared to stick up for myself. I'm not a shrinking violet.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman.

I have a lot of opinions, and I'm pretty bossy.

Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'

I would hate people to think bossy is all I can do.

No, you're not allowed to be bossy when you're married. You have to learn compromise, and compassion and patience.

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.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.

If you really want to get over someone or something in your life, I suggest you throw on some Ivy Queen. She will have you feeling extra bossy.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.

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.'

For me, saying 'I'm bossy' is a cute, tongue-in-cheek way of saying that I'm in control of my life.

Girls are twice as likely as boys to avoid leadership roles for fear of being deemed 'bossy' by their peers.

I was always bossy as a kid. I made my friends do shows that I wrote and would take them on tour from house to house.

When a woman stands up and is strong and commanding, she's called bossy. When a man does the same thing, people say, 'They're strong.'

I'll be bossy and damn proud! Banning words, please. Try banning the system that produces polices that promote inequity.

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.

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 teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

Our discomfort with female leadership runs deep. We call little girls bossy. We never really call little boys bossy, because a boy is expected to lead, so it doesn't surprise or offend.

I swear I'm not bossy in any other aspect of my life - it's just on set.

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.

When you're convinced that you're right and you believe that you have the license to do anything because you're right, you can be bossy and you can be dangerous. You can be oppressive. You can be a tyrant.

I was a sporadically bossy child.

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

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.

My older sister is bossy, my brother is a stirrer and me - well, I am perfect!

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

In real life, I tend to yell at people a lot. Not because I'm bossy or mean, but because I'm frustrated.

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.

I've always been bossy.

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 of rooms, but I do like to run things.

I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

It's not a 'sexy' position, being the producer. You have to be very bossy. You have to be very aggressive.