Stewardesses Quotes

#1. A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.

Henry Moore

#2. I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Janis Joplin

#3. I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls were navigating a blatantly misogynistic society, with the girdle checks and make-up checks.

Christina Ricci

#4. It is a challenge to believe that there was ever a time that airline food was exciting, when stewardesses were happy to see you, when flying was such an occasion that you wore your finest clothes. I

Bill Bryson

#5. Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

Patricia Ireland

#6. Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.

Tim Dorsey

#7. When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

John Travolta

#8. Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.

Hotaru Odagiri

#9. My grandmother was, back when they called them 'stewardesses,' a flight attendant. I actually had a ball wearing that little uniform and making sure everything was under control.

Erika Christensen

#10. Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.

Elizabeth Bowen

#11. Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

Cathleen Schine

#12. In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

Beck

#13. A man who thinks he is a king is mad, a king who thinks he is a king is no less so.

Maggie Nelson

#14. I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

Gloria Vanderbilt