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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; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Arises Backlash Because Being Bossy Dominant Exercise Get Often Power Problem Status Trying Without Women Young Young Women

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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.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Acts Admiration Along Assert Authority Banning Before Behavior Behaviors Bossy Discourage Early Earn Engage Girl Labels Leadership Means Positive Receive Reinforcement Teaching Want

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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

Topics: All Day Ambitious Around Bossy Could Day Engaged Just Leading Love Me Means Mind Passionate Somebody Term Them Women

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My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Back Before Bossy Bring Cows Daisy Dog Father Go Great Had Jobs Names Our Out Round Them Up

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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

Topics: Assertive Associated Attribute Being Boss Bossy Focused Girl Harmful He Hear Heard Men More Negative Quite Saying Subtle Term Than Thing Using Very Women Word You

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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

Topics: Activism Admitted Assertiveness Before Begin Betty Book Bossy Brand Brand New Confident Created Did Energy Even Generation Her History Lifetime My Generation New Our Political Profile Something Unknown Until Were Whose Women

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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.

~Carrie Coon

Topics: Bossy Child Claim Contradict Dancing Idea Loud Myself Observant Parents Quiet Thoughtful Time Which

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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.

~Casey Nicholaw

Topics: Always Bossy Friends House Kid Made Shows Take Them Tour Would Wrote

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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.'

~Clare Balding

Topics: Across Bossy Come Competent Everyday Gosh Journalist Male Man Never Sexism Thought Time Used Words You

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I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on display. I said that the tallest doll needed to be on the end, and my little friend said to me, 'Oh, you're just so bossy.' I remember thinking that wasn't a good thing. But I kept insisting the doll had to be on the end anyway.

~Condoleezza Rice

Topics: Anyway Bossy Different Display Doll Dolls End Event Friend Good Good Thing Had Having Insisting Just Kept Little Me Needed Oh Old Remember Remember When Said School Thing Thinking Were Where Years You I Remember A Good Thing

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