I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

Competing in show jumping is a school of life. And it's one of the few Olympic sports where men and women are equal.

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

If a woman tells a man the god favor him, everybody says she's far-minded.' The broom halted mid-sweep and the slave turned to Hild. 'But let a woman do what the gods tell her, without asking a man's permission first? Then she's possessed.' Unwen punctuated her words with her broom, jabbing it into the corner.

Mr Reichman was brilliant and very good at what he did, but he was still a man, and men rarely knew what decisions a woman had or hadn't made.

Women need to feel loved and men need to feel needed.