Iwona Blecharczyk

“Source: www.zeit.de - Die Zeit online, On the Road with Iwona by Carolin Würfel, translated from German: Charles Hawley and Daryl Lindsey”

“(...) That evening, they head back onto the autobahn, Blecharczyk's hands firmly on the hula hoop-sized steering wheel. When asked if she's in a relationship, she declines to answer. "There's not much I want to hide," she says, "but that is one of those things." She says that she can only continue to do this job for as long as she has no family, no children of her own. The few women drivers that do exist, she says, drop the profession as soon as they become mothers. The two things simply aren't compatible. "The freedom I have chosen for myself also comes at a price," she says. (...)”