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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

" I really believe in the idea of the future. "

" 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. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical. "