For the harridans

"Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. Nothing is more likely to set any subordinate’s back up, whether they be male or female, than for their boss to come the “mother knows best” routine at them." -- Lois McMaster Bujold, in correspondence with Sylvia Kelso, published in Women of Other Worlds (1999).

I can think of several control freaks who could stand to pay attention to that.