Come Fly The World Quotes

“Clad in an authoritative uniform, beauty conferred control.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Every plane was a vessel filled with people and their stories.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“What was revolutionary was the lack of should in this job, and the plenitude of could.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Still, the tone of a 1965 Continental advertising campaign became the norm. The advertisement featured an image of a pencil-skirted rear end leaning away from the viewer. Text alongside the photo read, “Our first run movies are so interesting we hope you’re not missing the other attractions aboard.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Coffee, Tea, or Me? The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Sex is neutral, like money. It’s the way you use it that counts,” one woman told journalist Gloria Steinem for a 1962 Esquire article.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“For decades stewardesses had tried to disentangle their work in flight from their unmarried status. “We don’t fly for love,” one stewardess said in a 1938 Popular Aviation article. The fact that a third of her cohort quit each year to marry “does not mean that all of us sit on a perch in the sky waiting for Dan Cupid to soar by and take a pot shot at us.” She and her colleagues worked as “sincerely and efficiently” as “regular businesswomen.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“the mid-1960s, the average U.S. airline stewardess worked for 32.4 months. “If that figure ever got up to thirty-five months, I’d know we’re getting the wrong kind of girl. She’s not getting married,” said a personnel manager at United in 1965.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Youth and marital status were monitored by rules that allowed for dismissal at a woman’s thirty-second or thirty-fifth birthday, depending on the airline, or upon her marriage.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“In Indonesia, a brutally anti-Communist ruler was in the process of killing up to a million Indonesians. The violence was indiscriminate and unpredictable.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Life is too short to waste even one precious year on dullness,”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Pan Am’s stewardesses sported sky-blue skirt suits by “Beverly Hills couturier” Don Loper, and National Airlines crews wore Jacqueline Kennedy’s favored designer, Oleg Cassini.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“pollen could not be destroyed and would always provide a map of the past.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“How can you change a world you’ve never seen?”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Men waged war with no consideration for the disastrous consequences, she thought. Across industries and professions, they sought ugly power. And women worked together to clean up the mess.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“Lynne taught them everything she knows about travel: how to move as a woman through the world with curiosity and confidence and deference for local perspectives and customs and how, whether she is near or far from home, that stance erases fear.”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

“safaris and jazz bands at the Equator Club in Nairobi, the thrill of airports consisting of little more than a sandy airstrip, the boisterous parties, and the vivid local markets, made Africa competitive. The route was limited to only the most senior stewardesses,”
― Julia Cooke, Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am