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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

" 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 think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" My generation were all careerists. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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