Daily Inspiration Quote by Erika Christensen

Christensen is threading nostalgia through a needle of power. She opens with “back when they called them ‘stewardesses,’” a casually loaded phrase that name-checks a whole era of gendered labor without stopping to lecture about it. The old job title carries the weight: a time when the role was coded as youthful, feminine, and service-first, even as the work demanded competence, stamina, and calm under pressure. By quoting the term and moving on, she lets the cultural discomfort do its own quiet work.

Then she flips the expected register. Instead of framing the uniform as a symbol of objectification, she says she “had a ball” wearing it. That choice reads less like ignorance than reclamation: a performer’s delight in costume and role-play, yes, but also an insistence that pleasure and agency can coexist inside an aesthetic people often reduce to a stereotype. Uniforms can be cages; they can also be armor.

The clincher is “making sure everything was under control.” That’s the fantasy of the flight attendant and, not incidentally, of the actor: maintaining composure while managing other people’s emotions in a tightly choreographed space. Christensen’s subtext is competence dressed as charm. She’s not romanticizing servitude so much as spotlighting the invisible managerial labor of “care work” - the calm voice that keeps the cabin (or the set, or the room) from tipping into chaos. The anecdote doubles as a self-portrait: someone who enjoys performance, but craves mastery.