headstrong

If she's headstrong and takes no BS, then she must be sleeping with someone in a position of power.

Gives you "character".The female equivalent of that is "uppity" or "headstrong"

This is not helped by the cult of the founder that is lauded: the strong-willed and headstrong leader who has 100% confidence in her abilities.

I'm not qualified to conduct, nosiree.\nBut OCC has 27 headstrong and capable individuals who all chafe a bit under the baton.

He's headstrong, sometimes a bit mean, positively pragmatic but also handsome, and -- oddly -- very likable.

Seems like a really bright, headstrong kid who is about to further cripple the already rough start of his potentially promising academic career.

But Mulan is portrayed as being so beautiful that it almost doesn't matter that she's clumsy and headstrong because her beauty alone would carry her a far way.

I was a very ambitious, headstrong, rebellious, and emotional teenager and early-20s guy.

I think there's a similar idea here: you have to be very headstrong to do a startup, but at times you also need to pull yourself out of that and really consider other angles/viewpoints.

Yes, because if there's anything the Internet needs, it's more people who remain headstrong in ignorance, to the point of insulting the opposition without investigating alternate views.

I've always placed a high premium on having the space to speak up for what I believe is right, and I am headstrong and naive enough to declare that I wouldn't want to work for or with anybody who thinks that's an outright problem.

I feel like this is a huge problem for me personally: Men often seem to like it that I am headstrong but it doesn't seem to help me get anywhere in terms of "business" because the reaction seems to very frequently be "and, god, I totally want to sleep with you".

... A good deal more worthy of preference by the clear-sighted teacher will be those students who are somewhat headstrong, con- temptuous of first place, insensible to the inducements of vanity, and who being endowed with an abundance of restless imagination spend their energy in the pursuit of literature, art, philosophy, and all the recreations of mind and body.