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" 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. "

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" All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. "

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

" Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space. "

" I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art. "

" What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. "

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

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" I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' "

" 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'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. "

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

" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "

" The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. "

" 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. "

" If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it. "

" 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. "

" When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms. "

" Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society. "

" As a woman, I'm expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don't design nice buildings - I don't like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality. "

" I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions. "

" Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. "

" For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. "

" 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. "

" People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde. "

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

" Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places. "