Gayle King

I can't stop watching 'Pan Am.' When I was growing up, my father worked as an engineer in Turkey, and we always flew Pan Am. The stewardesses were so glamorous! When they gave me a set of those golden wings, I felt very grown-up. Not only is the show's plot full of mystery and infidelity, they get the period details just right.

American Entertainer

Mary Daly

Patriarchy appears to be everywhere. Even outer space and the future have been colonized. As a rule, even the more imaginative science-fiction writers (allegedly the most foretelling futurists) cannot/will not create a space and time in which women get far beyond the role of space stewardess.

American Theologian

Gilbert O'Sullivan

My Norwegian wife Aase was a Pan Am stewardess back in the Seventies when we met. She was very attractive, and we became good friends, but I was travelling a lot and she was jetting back and forth across the Atlantic, so it was a while before we got together.

Irish Musician

John Travolta

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.

American Actor

Linda Evangelista

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

Canadian Model

Beck

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.

American Musician

Cathleen Schine

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.

American Author

Janis Joplin

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

American Singer

Jason Bateman

My father was a freelance writer/director/producer, and my mother was a stewardess for Pan-Am. It was very non-traditional.

Patricia Ireland

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

American Activist

The term 'stewardess' refers specifically to a female attendant; 'steward' is the male equivalent.

Gender-Specific

'Stewardess' used to be more common, but now 'flight attendant' is preferred for gender neutrality.

Historical Usage

A stewardess is often associated with service tasks such as serving food and drinks.

Service Role

Remember 'stewardess' on a ship involves similar hospitality duties as on a plane but in a maritime setting.

Ship vs. Plane

While on a ship, 'stewardess' will be used alongside other nautical terms and titles.

Maritime Vocabulary

On a cruise ship, a stewardess may also handle cabin cleaning and organizing activities.

Extended Services

 In fact, if I had a measles cough right now, somebody in the back of this auditorium could get infected. And this has had very real-world consequences. Just a few months ago, an airline stewardess contracted measles on a flight,

The new science of...

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