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

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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. "

" 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. "

" When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. "

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

" When I taught, all my best students were women. "

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

" I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "

" I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't. "

" In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. "

" Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. "

" When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. "

" 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. "

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

" I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums. "

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

" As a woman, you're not accessible to every world. "

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

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" My friendships are very important to me. "

" I am sure that as a woman I can do a very good skyscraper. "

" I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it? "

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