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

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" 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 I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame. "

" 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. "

" I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. "

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

" 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. "

" Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious. "

" 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. "

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

" Like men, women have to be diligent and work hard. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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