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I'm like a ship captain: I have a woman in every port.

One cannot deny the great role women have played in the world community. My flight was yet another impetus to continue this female contribution.

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.

Aviation offered such fun as crossing the continent in planes large and small, trying the whirling rotors of an autogiro, making record flights. With these activities came opportunity to know women everywhere who shared my conviction that there is so much women can do in the modern world and should be permitted to do irrespective of their sex.

I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.

I'm working for the women in the world, today; that's my essential issue.

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.