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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

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

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

" People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. "

" I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' "

" 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 think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. "

" The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme. "

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

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

" There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. "

" 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've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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