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" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

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" I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. "

" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. "

" It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history. "

" I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. "

" Men think a woman should not have an opinion. "

" Women are always told, 'You're not going to make it, its too difficult, you can't do that, don't enter this competition, you'll never win it,' - they need confidence in themselves and people around them to help them to get on. "

" Would they call me a diva if I were a guy? "

" Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. "

" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "

" Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male. "

" In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves. "

" Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality. "

" It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. "

" I will always have two regrets. I don't have a presence in London, and I would have liked to have done more work in the Middle East. "

" I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces are so animated. When they lie still, they are one thing, but once you stand them up or wear them, they become something else. "

" I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "

" Society has not been set up in a way that allows women to go back to work after taking time off. Many women now have to work as well as do everything at home and no one can do everything. Society needs to find a way of relieving women. "

" I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. "

" You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well. "

" People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner. "

" Of course, my family helped me, my brothers helped me, but after I set up my own office I had to really help myself. Some people seem to think I had an oil well in my garden! It's a nice idea but not true. "

" Wherever I am in the world, my perfect day begins with waking up and heading to the beach or the pool or somewhere I can be semi-comatose. I just wake up and go to the sun. "

" I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places. "

" I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes. "

" Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated. "