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" I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.' "

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" I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. "

" My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress. "

" I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid. "

" I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As a woman, you're not accessible to every world. "

" 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. "

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

" My friendships are very important to me. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" It's very important that historic cities are allowed to reinvent their future. "

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