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You need to get female talent which is good enough to compete at the right level because no team is going to compromise on on-track performance just to tick a gender box. ”
I've never played on my gender. ”
Ultimately, a women's only championship is not going to get more females into motorsport as a whole. ”
I never let my gender define me but in my whole driving career I only ever did one interview not being asked about being a female. ”
I was very lucky in that my parents supported my racing so much - they just said ‘whatever you want to achieve, if you work hard enough you can achieve it.' They never, ever let me believe that, as a female, I couldn't compete in a man's world." ”
In the 1900s, bleaching lotions and skin-lighteners were a female imperative no matter what her colour, often carrying suggestive names like 'Fair-Plex Ointment' and 'Black-No-More.' The tiniest touch of rouge was allowed, but only if applied with great subtlety. ”
I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority. ”
We believe that when all nations adhere to international rules and norms and when we conduct on the basis of sovereign equality and mutual respect, our nations feel secure, and our economies prosper. ”
It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same. ”
Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female. ”