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

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

" 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. "

" My generation were all careerists. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are so many great galleries and museums in London, but they can be very crowded during the day. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 really believe in the idea of the future. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. "

" 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. "

" Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. "