A closer look
Girlbossing was violently literal in 16th-century Ireland. Grace O'Malley, the bald-shaved pirate queen of Connacht, spent her life plundering English ships and defending her castles. When the English governor inevitably captured her son, she sailed straight to London to negotiate with Queen Elizabeth I. Since neither spoke the other's language, these two absolute titans haggled over international diplomacy and pirate amnesty in fluent Latin, proving a classical education pairs nicely with high-seas extortion.
