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" 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. "

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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. "

" The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. "

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

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

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