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" I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always unusual-looking; I wouldn't say beautiful. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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? "

" 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. "

" I love driving around east London - it's always full of surprises. Actually, I don't drive myself - I like to be driven. "