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

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Littles, Might

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• 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.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Teenage, Fighting, Want

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• A long time ago, there was no such thing as school, and children spent their days learning a trade, a phrase which here means "standing around doing tedious tasks under the instruction of a bossy adult." In time, however, people realized that the children could be allowed to sit, and the first school was invented.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, School, Mean

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• Why would you do that? (Delphine) Why do you think? (Jericho) Because I’m a bossy hag and you’d rather be enslaved to a man you hate than deal with me. (Delphine) You know…you’re not funny. (Jericho) I think I’m hysterical. (Delphine)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hate, Men, Thinking

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• Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me," I told them. "One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. "Really?" said one. No you idiot," I said in disgust. "I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.

  James Patterson

  Eye, Gps, Talking

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

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Clean, Old Woman, Howl's Moving Castle

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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

  Stefanie Powers

  People, Boss, Reason

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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

  Baby, Book, Political

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• She might not know what your routine is, but I do,” I said softly. “So put the lantern down. You’re not burning me yet, and we both know it.” “What’s she saying?” Sarah demanded, hobbling over. His white brows drew together, and I allowed a little smile to play on my lips. “Awfully bossy with you, isn’t she? Then again, it makes sense. She’s got the pants on, and you’re the one in the dress.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Play, White, Together

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• If you're sloppy, that's just fine. If you're moody, I won't mind. If you're fat, that's fine with me. If you're skinny, let it be. If you're bossy, that's all right. if you're nasty, I won't fight. If you're rough, well that's just you. If you're mean, that's all right too. Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mean, Fighting, Mind

  Shel Silverstein, “Don't Change On My Account”

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• It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness wh's kind of bossy--then I had to basically start liking a while different person.

  John Green

  Girl, Distance, Different

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• 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

  Hate, Views, People

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• My mom had an audition for a commercial when I was about two and a half, and I ran in crying and interrupted her. They thought I was cute so they offered me a commercial role. My mom was skeptical and a bit nervous about the child actor thing, but I was extremely bossy and convinced them I wanted to try it.

  Mae Whitman

  Cute, Mom, Children

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gayle King

  Girl, Three, My Sister

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

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, People, Filled

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• 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?

  Heidi Klum

  Order, People, Want

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• Mom was bossy. Even in print I could hear her tone, smugly congratulating me on already earning the prince's affections and telling me firmly to keep up whatever I was doing. Yeah, Mom, I'll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

  Kiera Cass

  Mom, Earning, Tone

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• He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.

  Christine Feehan

  Would Be, Arrogant, Want

  Christine Feehan (2012). “Christine Feehan's Drake Sisters Series: Five Novels and a Novella”, p.1054, Penguin

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• Yeah, Mom, I’ll just keep telling the prince that he has absolutely no shot with me and offend him as often as I can. Great plan.

  Kiera Cass

  Mom, Yeah, Shots

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• Lesson learned? When people say, "You really, really must" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, "You really, really must deliver the baby during labor." When it's true, it doesn't need to be said.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Baby, Mean

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.149, Hachette UK

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? “I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open.” The crowd cheers.

  Tina Fey

  Dream, Witty, Jobs

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

  Tina Fey

  Jobs, Inexperience, Virtue

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