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I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change.

When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

So when you start touring, women are definitely going to check you out first.

I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.

It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.

I appreciate the positivity of those 'year of the woman' articles - it's good to get that energy out there - but at the same time, in Hollywood it's not happening yet.